... story. The first element of fiction is Plot. Plot is defined as the plan or groundwork for a story, with the actions resulting from believable and authentic human responses to a conflict. It is causation, conflict, response, opposition, and interaction that make a plot out of a series of actions. Poe has a very traditional way of setting up the order of plot in "The Black Cat ... play a major role in the story. Following the exposition Poe raises the action by presenting the conflict. Conflict is defined as the opposition between two characters, or between the protagonists and the large...

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... Spoon River Anthology. Each of the people has their own secret lives, thoughts, and meanings, as people from any other small town in America do. Masters shows us these people inner thoughts and meanings and sometimes even in first-person point of view. In the following "morsels" I will compare and contrast four poems from Spoon River Anthology. The first two "morsels ... his children where as Albert Schirding also wanted the best for his children but he could not stand the fact that his children succeeded more than he did. Masters uses conflict between the two because in the poem they t...

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... are not of the masons?" "Yes. Yes." The contrasts are numerous as well and one can only guess that it adds to the building of suspense and causes the internal conflict when two varied dichotomies clash. Of course the largest clash is between Montressor and Fortunato. Montressor is a dark and brooding man while we are led to believe that Fortunato is ... person himself. "And with this break," states Mary Shelley Durham in her research, "there will likely be wishes for revenge against the perpetrators of his [Montressor's] depression and feelings of inner emptiness. " The extreme cases of...

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