The soap opera is characterized by a permanent cast of actors, a continuing story, emphasis on dialogue instead of action, a slower-than-life pace, and a consistently sentimental or melodramatic treatment. Soap is detergent and used as a cleanser. soap opera, broadcast dramatic serial program, so called in the United States because most of its major sponsors for many years were manufacturers of soap and detergents. A single story on a soap opera can be told for weeks, months, or sometimes even years. any compound of one or more fatty acids, or their equivalents, with an alkali. This means that each episode continues telling a story, which, in turn, tells more of the last episodes story.

A radio or television serial broadcast weekly, daily etc, especially one that continues from year to year, that concerns the daily life, troubles etc of the characters in it. A soap opera is a television or radio program that airs in episodic series. A drama, typically performed as a serial on daytime television or radio, characterized by stock characters and situations, sentimentality, and melodrama.

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