Cloture is a means of terminating a filibuster, which is a prolonged speech on the floor of the Senate designed to forestall legislative action.
Melodrama is: âa dramatic form that does not observe the laws of cause and effect and that exaggerates emotion and emphasizes plot or action at the expense of characterization.â (Dictionary.com) Drama is: âany situation or series of events having vivid, emotional, conflicting, or striking interest or results.â (Dictionary.com)
Dramatic irony is a form of irony that is expressed through a work âs structure : an audience âs awareness of the situation in which a work âs characters exist differs substantially from that of the charactersâ , and the words and actions of the characters therefore take on a differentâoften contradictoryâmeaning for the audience than they have for ...