OBJECTIVES

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OBJECTIVES

• Analyzing conflict
• Identify and understand elements of oral tradition

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Conflict

• Struggle between two opposing forces.

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Internal Conflict

• Takes place in the mind of the character.

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External Conflict

• Exists when a character struggles against some
  outside force, such as another person, nature,
  society, or fate.

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Oral Tradition

• Messages or testimony are passed orally from one
  generation to the next.
• In this way, it is possible for a society to
  transmit history, literature, law and other
  knowledge across generations without a writing
  system.

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BARD

• An oral poet.
• Used rhythm to enhance meaning.
• Just as musicians play to a steady rhythm, Homer,
  and other oral poets have a steady rhythm to
  their words.