English Literature A-Level
Audience pity and fear
What Audience pity and fear means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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The response affected by the type of tragedy, and by whether the tragedy feels remote or uncomfortably close.
Topics that use Audience pity and fear
- Aspects of tragedy (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Ambiguity and unresolved endings
- Audience expectation and response
- Catharsis
- Classical tragedy
- Complication, climax and catastrophe
- Determinism and free will
- Domestic tragedy
- Hamartia
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