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Wuthering Heights vocabulary

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Definition:

1. Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.
2. (now uncommon) Depth.
3. Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to
- anticlimax: an abrupt transition in style or subject from high to low.
- banality: unaffectingly cliché or trite treatment of a topic.
- immaturity: lack of serious treatment of a topic.
- hyperbole: excessiveness
4. The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.

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