Dramatize
verb
To make a story or situation more exciting or impressive by describing it in a very dramatic way.
The director decided to dramatize the scene by adding intense music and dramatic lighting.
Often appears as...
- dramatize a story
- dramatize a situation
verb
To adapt (a novel) or fact for performance in a play or a film.
Her bestselling novel was dramatized for a television series last year.
Often appears as...
- dramatize a novel
- dramatize a book
Usage tips
Literary
verb
To make a story or situation more exciting or impressive by describing it in a very dramatic way.
The director decided to dramatize the scene by adding intense music and dramatic lighting.
Often appears as...
- dramatize a story
- dramatize a situation
verb
To adapt (a novel) or fact for performance in a play or a film.
Her bestselling novel was dramatized for a television series last year.
Often appears as...
- dramatize a novel
- dramatize a book
Usage tips
Literary
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Intensity
Use 'dramatize' to suggest strong feelings or actions that intensify the situation.
He always dramatizes his travel stories, making them sound like epic adventures.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Literally
'Dramatize' often means making things seem more than they really are, not lying.
She tends to dramatize her workload; it's busy, but manageable.
Pro Tip 3/3Figurative Use
Understand 'dramatize' is commonly used in a figurative sense, not just for actual plays.
During the debate, he dramatized the consequences of ignoring climate change.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Intensity
Use 'dramatize' to suggest strong feelings or actions that intensify the situation.
He always dramatizes his travel stories, making them sound like epic adventures.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Literally
'Dramatize' often means making things seem more than they really are, not lying.
She tends to dramatize her workload; it's busy, but manageable.
Pro Tip 3/3Figurative Use
Understand 'dramatize' is commonly used in a figurative sense, not just for actual plays.
During the debate, he dramatized the consequences of ignoring climate change.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Intensity
Use 'dramatize' to suggest strong feelings or actions that intensify the situation.
He always dramatizes his travel stories, making them sound like epic adventures.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Literally
'Dramatize' often means making things seem more than they really are, not lying.
She tends to dramatize her workload; it's busy, but manageable.
Pro Tip 3/3Figurative Use
Understand 'dramatize' is commonly used in a figurative sense, not just for actual plays.
During the debate, he dramatized the consequences of ignoring climate change.
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story buddy name any true life adventure is a story of courage and heroism and Mars is as well but it's not just the getting there it's building the base it's colonizing it it's surviving we are dramatizing what we think the experience
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must be sufficient to eliminate racial wealth differentials within the course of a decade like to add finally that the corona virus epidemic only further dramatizes the case for reparations we've observed excess mortality on the
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Why should you read "A...
And in so doing, he evokes the effect of entering into the magical world of great theatre that plays with the boundary between illusion and reality – and dramatizes the possibility that life is but a dream.
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Behind the Scenes with...
story buddy name any true life adventure is a story of courage and heroism and Mars is as well but it's not just the getting there it's building the base it's colonizing it it's surviving we are dramatizing what we think the experience
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A blueprint for...
must be sufficient to eliminate racial wealth differentials within the course of a decade like to add finally that the corona virus epidemic only further dramatizes the case for reparations we've observed excess mortality on the
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Why should you read "A...
And in so doing, he evokes the effect of entering into the magical world of great theatre that plays with the boundary between illusion and reality – and dramatizes the possibility that life is but a dream.
Example 1 of 3
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V. S. Naipaul
Trinidadian Novelist
What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
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Edward Hirsch
American Poet
You're trying to write about something that's sacred. You're trying to bring the seriousness of life and death to it, and you're trying to find a way to dramatize it, and you're trying to give language to it, which is inadequate. But it's important to try.
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Wes Anderson
American Writer
I guess when I think about it, one of the things I like to dramatise, and what is sometimes funny, is someone coming unglued. I don't consider myself someone who is making the argument that I support these choices. I just think it can be funny.
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Jose Saramago
Portuguese Writer
I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing things, whether the good things that have happened to me or the bad. I simply live those moments.
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Nancy Kress
American Writer
Exposition has legitimate uses. It's the most efficient way to summarize background information, including necessary information about a character's history. It can set the stage well for a major dramatized event.
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Mike O'Malley
American Actor
The reason I'm a writer is to understand other people and myself more. The reason I'm a writer is to dramatize stories about human beings so that it improves my life. So that's a very selfish thing.
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John McGahern
Irish Writer
I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world.
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Robert Sheehan
Irish Actor
I think books, novels and autobiographies have a power to touch people far more personally than films do, so there's a bit more of a responsibility when you then dramatise it.
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Toby Jones
English Actor
It's always very strange to have your life dramatized because it never happens like that. Things will be different.
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Sylvia Kristel
Dutch Actress
I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize.
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V. S. Naipaul
Trinidadian Novelist
What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
Quote examples
Edward Hirsch
American Poet
You're trying to write about something that's sacred. You're trying to bring the seriousness of life and death to it, and you're trying to find a way to dramatize it, and you're trying to give language to it, which is inadequate. But it's important to try.
Quote examples
Wes Anderson
American Writer
I guess when I think about it, one of the things I like to dramatise, and what is sometimes funny, is someone coming unglued. I don't consider myself someone who is making the argument that I support these choices. I just think it can be funny.
Quote examples
Jose Saramago
Portuguese Writer
I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing things, whether the good things that have happened to me or the bad. I simply live those moments.
Quote examples
Nancy Kress
American Writer
Exposition has legitimate uses. It's the most efficient way to summarize background information, including necessary information about a character's history. It can set the stage well for a major dramatized event.
Quote examples
Mike O'Malley
American Actor
The reason I'm a writer is to understand other people and myself more. The reason I'm a writer is to dramatize stories about human beings so that it improves my life. So that's a very selfish thing.
Quote examples
John McGahern
Irish Writer
I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world.
Quote examples
Robert Sheehan
Irish Actor
I think books, novels and autobiographies have a power to touch people far more personally than films do, so there's a bit more of a responsibility when you then dramatise it.
Quote examples
Toby Jones
English Actor
It's always very strange to have your life dramatized because it never happens like that. Things will be different.
Quote examples
Sylvia Kristel
Dutch Actress
I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize.
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