Even editors (especially editors, who need to know what they don’t know more than most people) need to look things up sometimes. It could be a spelling you can never remember or the way a word is hyphenated in x style guide. Sometimes you just come across a word you don’t know at all, and this happened to me while working on a literary article.
So, what is a deuteragonist in a plot or play?
We know what a protagonist is – the main, central character. And an antagonist is the one who is against them. But the deuteragonist is the second most important person in a narrative – second to the protagonist. This could be the antagonist, but is more likely to be a secondary character, a sidekick, a faithful friend.
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Colline
March 6, 2019 at 12:29 pm
Interesting. I had never heard the term before.
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Liz Dexter
March 6, 2019 at 12:30 pm
I’m glad it wasn’t only me!
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Don Massenzio
March 7, 2019 at 5:21 pm
Reblogged this on Author Don Massenzio and commented:
Learn an new word, deuteragonist, which, to my surprise, has nothing to do with Jeff Bridges and it’s not a book in the Bible. It’s on this post from the Libro Editing blog.
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