What is another word for dramatization?

Pronunciation: [dɹˌamɐta͡ɪzˈe͡ɪʃən] (IPA)

Dramatization is the act of presenting a story in a way that is engaging and dramatic. There are many synonyms for this word, including dramatizing, theatricalizing, and dramaturgy. These words all refer to the artistic process of bringing a story to life through performance. Other synonyms for dramatization include adaptation, interpretation, and reenactment. Whether you are a writer, actor, or director, these words can help you capture the essence of a story and bring it to life on stage, screen, or page. So, if you want to add more drama and excitement to your work, try using one of these synonyms for dramatization.

What are the hypernyms for Dramatization?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Dramatization

As an instance of his tendency to dramatization, of the part his ego plays in the recital of his past exploits and of the tendency to crave sympathy and compassion, a characteristic quite common to these pathological swindlers, the following, his own description of the circumstances which brought about his admission to the Vienna Insane Asylum may be quoted:- While on vacation, I met at Wertersee, which is a fashionable summer resort, a girl with the name L. Adle von D. I had left my tutor behind.
"Studies in Forensic Psychiatry"
Bernard Glueck
From Mr. Rose-Black he could not protect them; and both the ladies amused Elmore with a dramatization of how the Englishman had boldly outwitted them, and trampled all their finessing under foot, by simply walking up to them in the reading-room, and saying, "This is Miss Mayhew, I suppose," and putting himself at once on the footing of an old family friend.
"A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories"
William D. Howells
An enterprising manager-P. T. Barnum, if I remember aright-raked up the Byron story and starred Lola in a dramatization of Lord Byron's poem "Mazeppa."
"Superwomen"
Albert Payson Terhune

Famous quotes with Dramatization

  • You have all heard the old bromide to the effect that man has his eyes on the stars and his feet in the mud. It is usually taken to mean that man's reason and his physical senses are the element pulling him down to the mud while his mystical, super-rational emotions are the element that lifts him to the stars. This is the grimmest inversion of many in mankind's history. But, last summer, reality offered you a literal dramatization of the truth. It is man's irrational emotions that bring him down to the mud. It is man's reason that lifts him to the stars.
    Ayn Rand
  • In my opinion Mr. Moore is a greater poet than Mr. Yeats. He has lived obscurely, and has not displayed Mr. Yeats's talent for self-dramatization; for these reasons and others he has never become a public figure or a popular writer.
    Thomas Sturge Moore
  • Explaining just what I had hoped the story to say is very difficult. I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.
    Shirley Jackson
  • It was a dramatization of total chaos, a functional definition of confusion, an unchoreographed dance of sad violence. It was war.
    Dan Simmons

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