What is the emotional release felt by the audience of a tragedy

Catharsis.

Explanation:

As it first was analyzed by Aristotle in his Poetics, catharsis is the emotional, spiritual and transcendent feeling of release that comes from witnessing tragic events and its consequences for a hero on stage. Catharsis is, then, one of the main elements of any tragedy and it is what makes a tragedy edifying for the audience rather than merely presenting a form of spectacle or entertainment.

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i would say c, admiration because the narrator related to the main character and she, too, once felt ashamed about her culture and wished to be an american girl to impress a boy. she felt admiration because her mom prepared her favorite foods when her and robert's (the guy she liked) family all came together and had a family reunion.