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.