Shock value is the potential of an action (as a public execution), image, text, or other form of communication to provoke a reaction of disgust, shock, anger, fear, or similar negative emotions.
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Famous quotes containing the word shock:
“Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)