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)
3. Dramatic irony - This form of irony has a specialized use -- it only occurs in works of drama or fiction. It describes the device in which the reader or audience is tipped off to a crucial fact still unknown to one or more of the characters.