Choose the correct one-word substitute for: A style of writing characterized by exaggerated sentimentality
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Correct answer: C
Explanation
Melodrama is a dramatic genre that amplifies emotion, sentimentality, and sensationalism over realistic character development.
Romanticism was an artistic and literary movement that emphasized emotion, individualism, and the glorification of all the past and nature, but it was not necessarily characterized by exaggerated sentimentality.
Sentimentalism is a related term but melodrama specifically refers to the style with heightened emotional expression.
Expressionism was a modernist movement that originated in Germany at the start of the 20th century, which aimed to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas.