The document discusses the concept of conflict in literature, emphasizing character dynamics driven by emotional tensions, revenge, and moral realizations. It uses textual evidence to illustrate how these conflicts shape characters' relationships and actions within a story. Additionally, it touches on poetic techniques such as assonance, onomatopoeia, and repetition, showcasing their role in enhancing the emotional resonance of the text.

1. Conflict
Character Vs. Character

2. What is Conflict?

3. Conflict Stems from
Differences or
Tension

4. Textual Evidence
“When I first saw my
sister, Delia, mercilessly
beating my dog, Biryuk,
with a stick, a fierce anger
surged within me.”

5. One Character
Often Dominates

6. Textual Evidence
“My sister was the most
ruthless creature I had
ever known.”

7. Emotional
Reactions
Fuel the Conflict

8. Textual Evidence
“I sat there, frozen in
disbelief, feeling hate
surge forth as if breaking
free from its cage.”

9. Revenge Intensifies
the Conflict

10. Textual Evidence
“With a sudden surge of
defiance, I decided to use it
against Delia. As she sat
embroidering, oblivious to
my approach, I tossed the
centipede onto her lap.”

11. Conflict May Lead
to Realization or
Change

12. Textual Evidence
“But as I knelt before her,
the guilt overwhelmed
me.”

13. Conflict Highlights
the
Characters’
Relationships

14. Textual Evidence
“Nothing I did seemed to
please her; she would
destroy anything I
cherished.”

15. readers see how
characters’
actions and emotions
can
drive a story forward
and
reveal important truths
about their

16. Have you had any
"conflict" with another
"character" in your life?
Recall how it went
about and think about
what caused the tension
between you and the
other person.

17. She sells seashells by
the seashore.

18. Tick tock on the
clock

19. 3.Assonance: This is
the repetition of
vowel sounds within
nearby words, often
in the middle of

20. Is it the kingfisher?

21. 4.Onomatopoeia:
These are words that
imitate natural
sounds.

22. Splash of water
Bang!
Knock
Quack

23. 5.Repetition: This is
the deliberate use of
a word or phrase
multiple times to
emphasize an idea or

24. Jose Garcia Villa’ s
repetition of "It must
be" in his poem First
a Poem Must be
Magical.

25. Column A
1. repetition of vowel sounds
2. repetition of initial consonant
sounds
3. words that imitate natural sounds
4. deliberate use of word or phrase to
emphasize an idea
5. repetition of consonant sound but
not necessarily in the beginning

26. Is it the Kingfisher?
Marjorie Evasco

27. Is it the Kingfisher?
This is how I desire god on this island
with you today: basic and blue
as the sea that softens our feet with
salt
and brings the living wave to our
mouths

28. Is it the Kingfisher?
playing with sounds of a primary language.
“God is blue,” sang the poet Juan Ramon
Jimenez,
drunk with desiring, his hair, eyebrows,
eyelashes turned blue as the kingfisher’s
wings.

29. Is it the Kingfisher?
It is this bird that greets us as we come
round the eastern bend of this island;
tells us the hairbreadth boundary between
us
is transient in the air, permeable to the blue

30. Is it the Kingfisher?
of tropic skies and mountain gentian.
Where we sit on this rock covered with
seaweeds,
I suddenly feel the blueness embrace us,
this rock, this island, this changed air,

31. Is it the Kingfisher?
the distance between us and the Self
we have longed to be. A bolt of
burning blue
lights in my brain, gives the answer
we’ve pursued this whole day:

32. Is it the Kingfisher?
seawaves sing it, the kingfisher flies
in it,
this island is rooted in it. Desiring
God is transparent blue – the color
which makes our souls visible.

33. Tell your Tongue Twisters.

34. The Rural Maid
I know not what to name thy charms,
Thou art half human, half divine;
And if I could hold thee in my arms,
I know both heaven and earth were mine.