Both Uses
melodrama
in
Delirium, by Lauren Oliver
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- It's supposed to be a story about guilt and the dangers of civil disobedience, but when I first read it I thought it seemed kind of lame and melodramatic.†
p. 117.3 *
- Don't be melodramatic, Lena.†
p. 417.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(melodrama) a story or behavior that is overly dramatic
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)