Melodrama vs Parody - What's the difference?
melodrama | parody |
(archaic, uncountable) A kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes.
(countable) 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; as, the melodrama in the grave digging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio".
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(uncountable, figuratively, colloquial) Any situation or action which is blown out of proportion.
A work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony.
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(archaic) A popular maxim, adage, or proverb.
To make a parody of something.
As nouns the difference between melodrama and parody
is that melodrama is while parody is a work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony.As a verb parody is
to make a parody of something.melodrama
English
(wikipedia melodrama)Noun
Derived terms
* melodramatic * melodramatics * melodramatist * melodramatize ----parody
English
(wikipedia parody)Noun
(parodies)- The lively parody which he wrote was received with great applause.
Verb
(en-verb)- The comedy movie parodied the entire Western genre.