English Literature GCSE
Audience response
What Audience response means in English Literature GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Audience response
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
How the audience reacts, which social and cultural context can illuminate without being the only possible interpretation.
Topics that use Audience response
- Component 1: Shakespeare and Post-1914 Literature - Context Requirements (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Audience and time
- Author's life and situation
- Changing interpretations
- Genre conventions
- Place and time of writing
- Categories of context
- Character pressures
- Context and meaning
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