What is one way in which traditional storytelling is different from modernist stories?
a: traditional stories do not have tidy resolutions
b: traditional stories are only told in third person
c: the conflict in traditional stories is always presented between the beginning and the end
d: the characters in traditional stories do not have problems or flaws that need to be reconciled

C: The conflict in traditional stories is always presented between the beginning and the end

Explanation:

Unlike traditional stories, modernist stories did not have a definite resolution of the plot problem at the end of the story. Modernist works were usually done without traditional plots, fragmentation and without clear endings. This made the plot conflict not always be presented between the beginning and the end.

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