This slideshow focuses on the protagonist; it defines the term, discusses the role in general and in the text, and provides a list of regular and villain protagonists from literature.

Clear and concise, this University of Victoria Writer's Guide definition of "protagonist" covers the basics.

In this instructional activity designed especially for girls, students read a work of realistic fiction and get to know strong female protagonists through online literary circles and writing activities.

How can an anti-hero teach us about the heroic--and sometimes, the unheroic--characteristics that shape a story's protagonist? From jealousy to self-doubt, Tim Adams challenges us to consider how anti-heroes reflect the very mortal...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit on characters where students learn about a story's protagonist and antagonist and the relationship between them by reading the book Hansel and Gretel by Rika Lesser. With free login,...

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will analyze how different playwrights characterize, or develop, their protagonists and antagonists through the dialogue and staging of their plays.

Learn how playwrights characterize their protagonists and antagonists through the dialogue and staging of their plays.

The interactive story lesson engages students in the study of "characters" and terms associated with them. Using the story of Cinderella as an anchor story, students will identify the following: hero, villain, protagonist, antagonist,...

This set of interactive flashcards focuses on story elements such as setting, characters, conflict, rising action, falling action, exposition, protagonist, antagonist, and resolution.

At this website, read all eight chapters of Daniel Defoe's novel, "Robinson Crusoe." Also provided is a brief paragraph introducing the text, its context, it protagonist, and its reasons for its popularity.

At this website, you can read all 45 chapters of Joseph Conrad's novel, "Lord Jim." Provided is a brief paragraph introducing the novel, its protagonist, and major events.

At this website, read both parts of Joseph Conrad's "Nostromo." Also provided is an "Author's Note" and a brief paragraph, introducing the text, its setting, and its protagonist.

Here, read all 13 chapters of Joseph Conrad's book, "The Secret Agent." Chapters are preceded by an "Author's Note" and a brief paragraph, introducing the text, its setting, and protagonist.

Lesson on why Aylmer, the protagonist of Nathaniel Hawthorne's story "The Birthmark," undertakes his fatal experiment. Lesson contents contain literary text, strategies for analysis, and vocabulary.

This is a PDF of a ReadWriteThink plot structure diagram chart form for students to use on short stories. It includes exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, theme, and protagonist and antagonist.

Students explore the theme of conflict in literature. They learn the difference between internal and external conflict and various types of conflicts, including self against self, self against other, and self against nature or machine....

At this website, access full texts of "Emma," "Lady Susan," "Mansfield Park," "Northanger Abbey," "Persuasion," "Pride and Prejudice," and "Sense and Sensibility." Also provided is a brief write-up on the life and career of Jane Austen,...

Arguably Mark Twain's most famous novel - indeed, one of the greatest works of American literature - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn brings together two people from the lower rungs of society, an ill-educated boy escaping an abusive...

Inspired by the opening events in The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman, students are asked to create an original parallel world that is similar to ours but different in certain ways. They will focus on the similarities and differences...

This is the full text of the novel The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig by David Graham Phillips; published in 1909 and represents the classical example of the muckraker tradition. The author depicts Washington's high society. The...

This is the full text of the novel Green Mansions by W. H. Hudson. It is a "romance of the tropical forest," as Hudson put it. The protagonist, Abel, falls in love with a wood nymph named Rima but their love is brought to an end when it...

This is the full text of the novel Green Tea by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, an Irish writer of Gothic tales, mystery novels, and horror fiction. A drink opens the inner eye of the protagonist. What follows is a mind-boggling tale of...

This informational text gives a brief overview of the causes and effects of Treacher Collins syndrome, the same condition that Auggie, the protagonist of Wonder by R.J. Palacio, has.As you read this text, try to imagine the different...

Literary terms are included in this assessment. This test assesses the following words: allusion, antagonist, dialogue, flashback, imagery, protagonist, symbol, dialect, hyperbole, idiom, irony, parody, pun, sarcasm, understatment, and...