Melodramas [noun]
Definition of Melodramas:
fanciful story or narrative
Synonyms of Melodramas:
● Story
● Novel
● Fiction
● Tale
● Fantasy
● Lyric
● Idealization
● Legend
● Ballad
● Fairy tale
● Idyll
● Love story
● Tear-jerker
Opposite/Antonyms of Melodramas:
● Non-fiction
● Truth
Sentence/Example of Melodramas:
Yes, there was a fine scene when I went home that night, a Broadway melodrama.
Could any melodrama wish for a more appropriate mise-en-scne?
Staking all on high moments is melodrama with no comic relief.
I objected strongly to being treated as the villain of a melodrama.
We could hardly keep from laughing, it was so very like a melodrama.
Angelo is pure melodrama; Marie Tudor is the melodrama of history.
"We're to meet a man," Senesin said, with an air of melodrama.
I sit, an audience, shedding crocodile tears at a melodrama.
"I cannot avoid a touch of melodrama, you see," she confessed.
In 1805 Lewis recast it into a melodrama, which he called Rugantino.
Words related to Melodramas:
● Melodramas
● Dramas
● Comedies
● Farces
● Film noir
● Tragicomedy
● Potboiler
● Dramedy
● Thrillers
● Soap opera
● Epics
● Melodramatics
● Schlock
● Noir
● Musicals
● Weepie
● Soaper
● Sitcoms
● Fable
● Oaters
● Tearjerker
● Romances
● Westerns
● Novels
● Operetta
● Sagas
● Allegories
● Oater
● Campy
● Operas
● Fantasia
● Serials
● Stageplay
● Movies
● Slapstick
● Jean giraudoux
● Pastiche
● Hackwork
● Satire
● Films
● Psychodrama
● Cliffhangers
● Monologues
● Absurdism
● Dramatizations
● Dramatist
● Sendup
● Teleplay
● Librettos
● Docudrama
● Opera buffa
● Ballads
● Whodunits
● Double indemnity
● Vaudeville
● William wyler
● Mack sennett
● William wycherley
● Pathos
● Heroines
● Fassbinder
● Cliches
● Shavian
● Opera seria
● Archetypes
● Soapier
● W. somerset maugham
● Talky
● Tale
● Revivals
● Fictionalisation
● Tropes
● Picaresque
● Grand guignol
● Corniness
● Telenovela
● Lubitsch
● Ernst lubitsch
● Folktale
● Gothic romance
● Flicks
● Playwright
● Roundelay
● Machinal
● Escapism
● Ballets
● Magic realism
● Odets
● High jinks
● Sergei eisenstein
● Auteur
● Romancer
● Actioner
● Weeper
● Romanticism
● Schmaltz
● Telefilm
● Productions
● Singspiel
● Florenz ziegfeld
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