Title of short story or novel author 1. describe the setting of your novel or short story. provide a quotation from the text to support your answer. 2. describe the protagonist of your novel or short story. provide a quotation from the text to support your answer. 3. discuss the main conflict in your novel or short story. if the conflict is not perfectly clear yet, what do you suspect it will be? explain who is trying to do what. which of the four major types of conflict best describes the situation you discussed? 4. provide at least two examples of dialogue in your novel or short story that support the type of conflict you have identified. explain how each example of dialogue supports the conflict. 5. describe two examples of rising action events in your novel or short story.