protagonist
IPA: proʊtˈægʌnʌst
noun
- (authorship) The main character, or one of the main characters, in any story, such as a literary work or drama.
- A leading person in a contest; a principal performer.
- (proscribed) An advocate or champion of a cause or course of action.
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Examples of "protagonist" in Sentences
- In the first line the protagonist is asking the watch not to keep time.
- Comic book publishers are comfortable working with that demographic and it makes sense for an office comedy where the main protagonist is a guy aged 24.
- Quinn, the main protagonist, is a middle-aged government official sent north to audit a remote area of land earmarked for a large and prestigious development.
- The main protagonist is Takeshi Kovacs, an ex-Envoy who was trained to survive being digitally transmitted across to space to inhabit new bodies and fight for the United Nations.
- The main protagonist is female, often develops complex relationships with the women she meets on her journey, and romance is mostly left in the background, at least in the first couple books.
- Characterization, or rather the main protagonist, is without a doubt the biggest strength of the novel, before all other aspects - such as style, elements of "hard science", plotting or the lackluster worldbuilding.
- Not that I'd really want to learn our main protagonist is a werewolf moonlighting as a member of the local police force on my own, but telling me immediately after you state the story's title just ruins any pinch of surprise their might be.
- I'm really just using these as nominal labels for degrees of saturation or non-saturation with alethic quirks -- "mythic" for the point where the protagonist is themselves arcane/exotic/chimeric, "non-mythic" for the zones where the quirks are dissipated to the point of being subliminal or absent.
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