English Literature A-Level
Audience response and emotional effect
What Audience response and emotional effect means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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How the comedy ultimately affects the audience, inviting laughter at ridiculous behaviour and a sense of joy that positive resolutions are possible.
Topics that use Audience response and emotional effect
- Aspects of comedy (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Comic mood and tonal balance
- Comic versus tragic structure
- Complex plotting
- Courtship and desire
- Courtship and domestic life
- Courtship and social codes
- Discomfort contained rather than disastrous
- Discovery
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