Best answer gets brainliest! if a writer wanted to develop a protagonist’s personality without using dialogue or direct narration, which would be most effective? creating tension between the minor characters describing the main setting of the key events focusing on the actions of the antagonist including descriptive details about clothing or habits

so the definition for Protagonist is : the main character in a work of literature, who is involved in the central conflict of the story. Usually, the protagonist changes after the central conflict reaches a climax. He or she may be a hero and is usually the one with whom the audience tends to identify.

if you think about it this way following the definition its Including descriptive details about clothing or habits,

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the correct answer is:

this is an example of the writer telling through description rather than showing through dialogue.

sometimes writers like to explain explicitely what's happening instead of adding dialogues of the situations., which is the case in this passage,

tree and the cat in the tree