comedy vs drama vs tragedy
Definitions
noun
- light and humorous drama with a happy ending
- a comic incident or series of incidents
Examples
I think it's certainly quite a lot of the comedy that I've been involved in is quite extreme, if you like, and the extremity is part of what's funny about it.
Sony Pictures Animation has a full slate of films including the mouth-watering 3D comedy Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, which opened as the #1 movie in North America on September 18, Hotel Transylvania, now in pre-production and, in association with Columbia Pictures, The Smurfs, now in production.
Family comedy sequel based on the popular book series.
Definitions
noun
- an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional
- the quality of being arresting or highly emotional
- the literary genre of works intended for the theater
- a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage
Examples
For centuries, scholars have squabbled over the design of the ship, which was crucial to defeating the Persians in the Battle of Salamis in 480 B.C., part of a wider war that included the fight at Thermopylae dramatized in the film "300.
Academic excellence was matched with extra-curricular activities of every description - from drama through sport to foreign travel.
The premise kinda sounds interesting and it has a good cast, but it also sounds a bit too overdramatic and emo …
