How do conflicts throughout a story most affect the plot? conflicts describe settings and characters in great detail. conflicts are a way to share characters’ thoughts and feelings. conflicts are used to introduce the resolution of the story. conflicts lead to more plot events as well as character reactions.

D. The conflict in the plot exists at different levels. In most cases, the writer does not invent conflicts, but takes them from the primary reality-so the conflict passes from life itself to develop of the plot events. This is a conflict at a meaningful level (sometimes it is used to refer to another term, "collisio"). The meaningful conflict is embodied, as a rule, in the confrontation of characters and in the movement of the plot events.

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the sentence that avoid faulty coordination is:

culture, which is well represented in philadelphia, plays a major role including theatre, music, and the visual arts.  

faulty coordination occurs when the writer gives equal importance two different ideas (clauses) which in fact are not equivalent. in order to correct a misplaced clause or idea, the writer can place less important or emphatic ideas in a relative clause as in the previous sentence.