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)
used in two ways: in a play or film script, the dramatic action is what happens in the story or scene in the most fundamental sense. For the actor, the action is what his or her character does to try to fulfill a need by winning some objective.