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GCSE English Literature · key term
A sudden movement from an exciting or important expectation to a disappointing or diminished outcome, such as opening the recovered chest and finding nothing inside.
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Paper 1
Revise: Greed and treasureThe repeated promises of wealth make the opening of the empty chest an anticlimax. For Watson and Mary, however, disappointment becomes liberation. Watson’s final sentence in Chapter 11 transforms the meaning of treasure: “Whoever had lost a treasure, I knew that night that I had gained one.”
Connect a word-level detail to a larger method, such as the delayed revelation of the treasure’s origins or the anticlimax of the empty chest.
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