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dramatic structure

dramatic structure noun: the sequence that a five-act play follows, including exposition, rising action, climax or turning point, falling action, and denouement or catastrophe.

Noun

dramatic structure (countable and uncountable, plural dramatic structures)

  1. The sequence that a five-act play follows, including exposition, rising action, climax or turning point, falling action, and denouement or catastrophe.
  2. One of four formats used in commercials that are designed to affect the audience emotionally, not just rationally: emotional pivot, positive transition, emotional build, and sustained emotion.
    • The laptop ad that first showed an IT team with a problem and then showed FooCorp as the solution used emotional pivot as its dramatic structure.

Forms of dramatic structure

pluraldramatic structures

Questions about dramatic structure

What does dramatic structure mean?
Dramatic structure means the sequence that a five-act play follows, including exposition, rising action, climax or turning point, falling action, and denouement or catastrophe.
What part of speech is dramatic structure?
Dramatic structure is a noun.
What is the plural of dramatic structure?
The plural of dramatic structure is dramatic structures.

Words near dramatic structure in the dictionary

  1. dramatic irony
  2. dramatic license
  3. Dramatic Prakrit
  4. dramatic present
  5. dramatic soprano
  6. dramatic structure
  7. dramatic structures
  8. dramatic unity
  9. dramatical
  10. dramatically
  11. dramaticism

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