melodrama Definition

drama, tragedy, soap, transpontine, melodramatics, pathos, sentimentality, slapstick, histrionics, tragicomedy, soap opera, tearjerker, grand guignol, dramedy, farce, thriller, psychodrama, suspense, theatrics, comedy, dramatization, pastiche, film noir, bathos, theatricality, whodunit, campy, sentimentalism, bombast, satire, narrative, mawkishness, romance, romanticism, silliness, allegory, gothic romance, subplot, opera buffa, docudrama, tale, potboiler, schmaltz, weepie, fable, corniness, roundelay, didacticism, triteness, sappiness, absurdism, talky, noir, steaminess, fantasia, sordidness, schlock, staginess, soaper, shavian, hokum, emotionalism, oater, plotline, denouement, grotesquerie, grimness, stylization, looniness, tearjerking, grandiloquence, cliches, salaciousness, moralizing, soapier, tawdriness, spellbinder, melancholy, weeper, intrigue, cheesiness, operetta, subtext, playlet, hilarity, opera seria, kitsch, ponderousness, bravura, antiheroine, climaxes, stageplay, verite, whimsy, archness, sendup, hackwork, tragi, cornpone, picaresque,