melodrama

n. emotionally exaggerated dramatic form; sentimental or sensationalized play

For other uses see Melodrama (disambiguation) The word "melodrama" comes from the Greek word for song "melody", combined with "drama". Music is used to increase the emotional response or to suggest characters. There is a tidy structure or formula to melodrama: a villain poses a threat, the hero escapes the threat (or rescues the heroine) and there is a happy ending. In melodrama there is a constructed world of connotations.
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Noun
1. an extravagant comedy in which action is more salient than characterization
(hypernym) comedy

n. melodrama, emotionally exaggerated dramatic form; sentimental or sensationalized play

n. melodrama, sentimental or sensationalized play