Drama vs. Fabrication — What's the Difference?

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television. Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's Poetics (c.

To make; create.

A play for theatre, radio, or television

To construct by combining or assembling diverse, typically standardized parts

An exciting, emotional, or unexpected event or circumstance

To concoct in order to deceive

A prose or verse composition, especially one telling a serious story, that is intended for representation by actors impersonating the characters and performing the dialogue and action.

(uncountable) The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture

A serious narrative work or program for television, radio, or the cinema.

(countable) That which is fabricated; a falsehood

Theatrical plays of a particular kind or period

(cooking) The act of cutting up an animal carcass as preparation for cooking; butchery.

The art or practice of writing or producing dramatic works.

The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government.

A situation or succession of events in real life having the dramatic progression or emotional effect characteristic of a play

That which is fabricated; a falsehood; as, the story is doubtless a fabrication.

The quality or condition of being dramatic

A deliberately false or improbable account

A composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue

Writing in a fictional form

Such a work for television, radio or the cinema (usually one that is not a comedy)

The act of making something (a product) from raw materials;

Theatrical plays in general

The act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)

A situation in real life that has the characteristics of such a theatrical play

The deliberate act of deviating from the truth

(slang) Rumor, lying or exaggerated reaction to life or online events; melodrama; an angry dispute or scene; a situation made more complicated or worse than it should be; intrigue or spiteful interpersonal maneuvering.

A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorous actions of more than ordinary interest, tending toward some striking result. It is commonly designed to be spoken and represented by actors on the stage.

A series of real events invested with a dramatic unity and interest.

Dramatic composition and the literature pertaining to or illustrating it; dramatic literature.

A dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage;

An episode that is turbulent or highly emotional

The literary genre of works intended for the theater

The quality of being arresting or highly emotional