There are two main types of conflict: internal and external. Internal conflict involves a psychological struggle within a character, while external conflict involves a character struggling against an outside force. Most news stories focus on external conflicts such as man vs. man or man vs. nature. Connotation refers to the implied or associative meanings of a word based on cultural and emotional associations rather than its literal definition. Convention refers to traditional aspects of literary works, such as soliloquies in Shakespearean plays or tragic heroes in Greek tragedies.