English Literature A-Level
Audience expectation and response
What Audience expectation and response means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Audience expectation and response
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Where the audience or reader would conventionally expect an aspect, how the text creates that expectation, and how different audiences might respond.
Topics that use Audience expectation and response
- Aspects of tragedy (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Ambiguity and unresolved endings
- Catharsis
- Classical tragedy
- Complication, climax and catastrophe
- Determinism and free will
- Domestic tragedy
- Hamartia
- Order and disorder
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