Persuasive Techniques. Persuasive language techniques are used by authors to convince readers of their point of view, and to sway them to their point of view. Authors vary their persuasive techniques based upon audience, writing genre, and their own motives.
A; it mentions in the second sentence that he hadn't slept two consecutive hours due to dreams. He kept trying to get back to sleep near the end of the story, so that would be the main conflict.
An antagonist is a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something. So in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet the Capulet's are the Montague's antagonist due to the long family feud between the two rival families.