What is a Soap Opera?

Definitions of a Soap Opera and Soap Opera Trailer

1. What is a Soap O pera ? A soap opera is ‘ a television or radio drama serial dealing typically with daily events in the lives of the same group of characters’. http:// www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/soap-opera ‘ S oap operas are ongoing works of fiction, and episodic in nature’. http:// soaps.about.com/od/soaps101/a/whatsasoap.htm 1 . ‘A drama, typically performed as a serial on daytime television or radio, characterised by stock characters and situations, sentimentality, and melodrama’. 2. ‘A series of experiences characterized by dramatic displays of emotion’. http:// www.thefreedictionary.com/soap+opera Examples of Soap Operas include: EastEnders, Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Hollyoaks ‘A soap opera trailer is an advertisement for a new film or television show’ http:// www.ldoceonline.com/Television+and+Radio-topic/trailer ‘A short filmed advertisement for a movie or broadcast’ http:// www.thefreedictionary.com/trailer ‘A series of short edited clips of selected scenes that are put together into one montage’. http:// www.webopedia.com/TERM/T/trailer.html What is a Soap O pera T railer ?