Drama
['drɑːmə] or ['drɑmə]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of being arresting or highly emotional.
(noun.) the literary genre of works intended for the theater.
(noun.) an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional.
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Definition
(n.) A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorous actions of more than ordinary interest, tending toward some striking result. It is commonly designed to be spoken and represented by actors on the stage.
(n.) A series of real events invested with a dramatic unity and interest.
(n.) Dramatic composition and the literature pertaining to or illustrating it; dramatic literature.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Dramatic composition.[2]. Dramatic literature.
Editor: Nell
Unserious Contents or Definition
To see a drama, signifies pleasant reunions with distant friends. To be bored with the performance of a drama, you will be forced to accept an uncongenial companion at some entertainment or secret affair. To write one, portends that you will be plunged into distress and debt, to be extricated as if by a miracle.
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Examples
- It drew together all the known world, excepting only the western Mediterranean, into one drama. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But politics was a personal drama without meaning or a vague abstraction without substance. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Yet the Greek genius has produced a great sea drama in the 'Odyssey. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Like drama which compresses the tragedy of a lifetime into a unity of time, place, and action, history foreshortens an epoch into an episode. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- You will now be present at the last scene of a remarkable little drama. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Then to hear them fall into ecstasies with each other's creations--worshipping the heroine of such a poem, novel, drama--thinking it fine, divine! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In early youth, the living drama acted around me, drew me heart and soul into its vortex. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- At any rate he resolved to keep up the drama to the last act. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It was pretty enough to see my sister enter as it were into the spirit of the drama, and endeavour to fill her station with becoming dignity. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He has played a not unimportant part in this drama, said he. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- His views of language and number are derived from Plato; like him he denounces the drama. Plato. The Republic.
- Her picturesque and romantic history stands apart from the general drama of human affairs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The curtain rises on a drama in the sea that has already begun, and has been going on for some time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Crispin was in his room, engaged in writing his drama. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Antony gave way to much mournful posturing, varied by love scenes, during this last stage of his little drama. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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