All 5 Uses of
melodrama
in
Misery, by Stephen King
- Her world was corny and melodramatic, but that did not change the fact that returning there had been nowhere near as distasteful as he had expected, it had been, in fact, rather comforting, like putting on a pair of old slippers.†
Chpt 2
- Yes, Paul could suddenly see it, and in an instinctive way he understood exactly how such a scene, absurdly melodramatic as it might be, could be milked for suspense.†
Chpt 2
- She had done it, and all the time between then and now had been pain and boredom and occasional bouts of work on his stupidly melodramatic book to escape the former two.†
Chpt 3
- But it was pretty minor, league stuff; the highest his temperature had ever gone was 100.7, and that wasn't exactly the stuff of which high melodrama was made.†
Chpt 3 *
- The plot was melodramatic but well constructed, in its own modest way quite amusing.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
a story or behavior that is overly dramatic