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)
Q: I have a basic question: What is meant by a 'character's dramatic function?'. A: A character's dramatic function describes the structural reason your character is in a story. In Dramatica, the storyform contains the underlying structural and dynamic components of a story's dramatics. Part of those dramatics are the character elements (e.g. pursue, avoid, temptation, etc.). Assigning character elements to a character in the Overall Story throughline gives that character a dramatic function, meaning that character needs to be in the story because it fulfills a structural requirement.