English Literature A-Level
Comic versus tragic structure
What Comic versus tragic structure means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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A contrast in which a protagonist's choices can bring down a ruler, a city or an entire people in tragedy, whereas comedy keeps its focus on personal and domestic consequences.
Topics that use Comic versus tragic structure
- Aspects of comedy (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Audience response and emotional effect
- Comic mood and tonal balance
- Complex plotting
- Courtship and desire
- Courtship and domestic life
- Courtship and social codes
- Discomfort contained rather than disastrous
- Discovery
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