In the poem, Okita uses to show what the speaker’s friend thinks about her after the speaker has been given an order to relocate. Denise’s hurts the speaker; she says, “You’re trying to start a war.”

The quoted words are spoken by Denise, so they are dialogue. Okita uses Denise’s dialogue to reveal her feelings about the speaker after the relocation order. The answer is dialogue, not conflict, which is the struggle or disagreement between characters.

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