Conflict Categories

Worksheet Description

This “Elements of a Story” worksheet guides students in analyzing the central conflict and resolution in a narrative, while also considering the main character’s traits and their role in the story’s development.

1. Students identify and describe the primary challenge or obstacle that the main character encounters in the story.
2. Students explore the character’s attempts to resolve the problem and consider how their personal traits may either aid or contribute to the conflict.
3. Students identify additional obstacles or challenges that hinder the character’s progress, intensifying the narrative conflict.
4. Students determine the story’s climax and provide reasons or evidence to support their choice.
5. Students categorize the conflict as person against person, person against themselves, person against nature, or person against society, promoting an understanding of different conflict types in literature.

By dissecting the story’s conflict, resolution, and character traits, this worksheet encourages students to analyze the narrative’s central themes and character development, fostering a deeper comprehension of storytelling elements.