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)
We can, for example, go a long way toward a workable definition of a dramatic monologue, and from the time of Aristotle's Poetics very reasonable and workable definitions have been made fro the tree generally recognized forms of dramatic poetry: tragedy, comedy, and the historical drama.