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Literary Term - #3 Protagonist The main character. The person for whom the audience roots. (Luke Skywalker) Antagonist The opponent who blocks the Protagonist. (Darth Vader)

Literary Term - #3 Protagonist The main character. The person for whom the audience roots. (Luke Skywalker) Antagonist The opponent who blocks the Protagonist

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Slide 2 Literary Term - #3 Protagonist The main character. The person for whom the audience roots. (Luke Skywalker) Antagonist The opponent who blocks the Protagonist. (Darth Vader) Slide 3 Literary Term - #3 Anti-Hero : When the protagonist is actually a villain in the story, but we empathize with him anyway. Sometimes, the hero can even become an anti-hero because he does destructive things as the overall good outweighs the evil he must do to succeed in the moment. Slide 4 Literary Term - #3 Sometimes, the hero must do destructive things to reach the ultimate goal of stopping evil. Slide 5 Literary Term - #3 The anti-hero believes he is correct in his attack and justified for doing what he does. Slide 6 Literary Term - #3 Foil : A character who serves as a direct contrast to another character as a device to emphasize the qualities of a main character. (Dr. Watson to Sherlock Holmes) Slide 7 Literary Term - #3 The opposite personalities of a foil highlight the protagonists personality traits. Slide 8 Time to own it: In the movie National Treasure, who was 1.The protagonist _____________ 2.The foil _________________ 3.The antagonist______________ Literary Term - #3