English Literature A-Level
Mock-heroic comedy
What Mock-heroic comedy means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Mock-heroic comedy
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A comic mode in which Chaucer blends high and low styles, parodying epic and courtly conventions.
Topics that use Mock-heroic comedy
- Aspects of comedy - Set texts: Drama and further texts (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Comedy and satire
- Death, mortality and mock-elegy
- Epigrams
- Expectation versus reality
- Love, seduction and gender relations
- Memory and narrative perspective
- Migration and belonging
- Myth, art and rewriting tradition
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