What is the meaning of Melodrama?

A kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes.

A drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks

Any situation or action which is blown out of proportion.

melodrama (a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations)

melodrama (any situation or action which is blown out of proportion)

a melodrama

a melodrama

melodrama (romantic drama)

melodrama (any situation or action which is blown out of proportion)

melodrama

melodrama

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