Plot
Literary Conflicts
Plot in The Pedestrian
Short Story Conflicts
Short Story Questions
100

The introduction of the story. Where the characters and setting are introduced. 

What is the exposition?

100

A character struggles against society as a a whole.

What is character vs. Society?

100
What is the climax of The Pedestrian?

What is when Leonard is instructed to get inside the police car?

100
Name a literary conflict in The Pedestrian?

What is character vs. Technology.

100

Who is the main character or protagnoist in The Pedestrian? 

Who is Leonard Mead?
200

Tension and suspense start to build in a story. Conflicts are introduced and further exploered.

What is the rising action?

200

A character struggles against an element of nature.

What is character vs. nature?

200

What is the resolution of The Pedestrian? 

What is when Leonard Mead is taken to the psychiaratric center for regressive tendencies and the street is now empty, empty, empyty?

200

Name a literary conflict in There Will Come Soft Rains.

What is character vs. Society or Character vs. techonogly?

200

Who is the main character in Smart House? 

Who is Ben?

300

The tension starts to decrease in a story. 

What is the falling action?

300

A character struggles against another character.

What is character vs. character? 

300

What is the rising action of The Pedestrian?

What is when Leonard Mead is stopped and questioned by a police car for walking alone at night while everyone else is inside watching televison?

300

Name two literary conflicts from "Smart House?"

What is character vs. character 

What is character vs. technolgoy

What is character vs. self

300

What is the setting of The Pedestrian? 

What is Night time in the year 2053.

400

This is the turning point of the story where the highest moment of tension often occurs.. Characters often learn valuable lessons or are changed in some way. 

What is the climax?

400

A character struggles against an internal battle inside his or her mind.

What is character vs. self?

400

What is the exposition of The Pedestrian?

What is Leonard Mead taking a walk alone at night in the year 2053.

400

Name three literary conflicts from the Lady & The Tiger?

What is chacter vs. character?

What is character vs. self?

What is character vs. society? 

400

What happened to the people on There Will Come Soft Rains?

What is humans were destroyed in a war. 
500

This is the conclsuion of the story where loose ends are tied up. 

What is the Resolution?

500

A character struggles against robots, machines, or some other form of powerful technology.

What is character vs. technolgoy?

500
What is the falling action in The Pedestrian?

What is Leonard Mead being taken to the psychiatric center for regressive tendencies? 

500

The princess having to choose to let her lover be eaten by a tiger or marry anotehr woman is what type of conflict? 

What is character vs. self?

500

Why can the princess and the commoner not be together in The Lady or The Tiger?

What is the princess' father is king and only wanys her to marry a royal man of hifh class.