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)
Imitation, he says, is natural and pleasurable, and indeed, it seems it is cross-cultural. The form of poetry to which Aristotle devotes the most attention in the Poetics is tragedy, but what he has to say about this form was, for centuries, the paradigm for all forms of narrative. 1st Principle of Tragedy: Plot.