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)
literature depicting emotional matter in an imaginative form. Characteristics include: individuality, subjectivity, spontaneity, freedom from rules, solitary life vs. life in society, the belief that imagination is superior to reason, devotion to beauty, worship of nature, fascination with the past, etc.