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: a discrepancy between what the speaker says and what the author means; the unexpected fulfillment or reversal of a character's expectations; a device by which the author implies a different meaning from that indented by the speaker in a literary work (ex: the closing line of William Blake's The Chimneysweeper: So if all do their duty they need not fear harm.)