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: Situational irony in which a character perceives his or her plight in a limited way while the audience and one or more other characters understand it entirely. 9. Dramatic or objective point of view: Third person point of view in which no authorial commentary reveals characters' thoughts. 10.