The word "dramatize" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a situation that is made to seem more serious or important than it actually is. For example, "The media tends to dramatize news stories to make them more interesting to viewers."
A single statistic may dramatize this process.
September 4, 1882 Würzburg, Germany August 18 , 1961Munich, Germany Leonhard Frank, (born Sept. 4, 1882, Würzburg, Ger. died Aug. 18, 1961, Munich, W.Ger.), German Expressionist novelist and playwright who used sensationalism and a compact and austere prose to dramatize a favourite theme the destruction of the individual spirit by bourgeois society.
America's Most Wanted (Fox/Lifetime, 1988–2012) and Unsolved Mysteries (NBC/CBS, 1988–99; Lifetime, 2001 02) used actors to dramatize stories about crimes for which the suspects were still at large.
Icaza continued to dramatize the struggles of the poor in novels, and he never stopped writing for the theatre.
Off-Broadway also enabled playwrights such as James Baldwin and LeRoi Jones Amiri Barakaa) to dramatize racial issues with a frankness not previously seen on the American stage.
Rómulo Gallegos, in full Rómulo Gallegos Freire (born August 21 , 1884 Caracas, Venezuela died April 4 , 1969 Caracas) president of Venezuela (in 1948) and novelist, best known for his forceful novels that dramatize the overpowering natural aspects of the Venezuelan Llanos (grasslands), the local folklore, and such social events as alligator hunts.
In order to dramatize the potential of this new medium of communication, he began, as early as 1902, to give public demonstrations of wireless telegraphy for businessmen, the press, and the military.
15, O.S.], 1891, St . Petersburg Russian novelist and travel writer, whose highly esteemed novels dramatize social change in Russia and contain some of Russian literature's most vivid and memorable characters.
The Visible World in Pictures (1658), which remained popular in Europe for two centuries, attempted to dramatize Latin through pictures illustrating Latin sentences, accompanied by one or two vernacular translations.
Riis used the images to dramatize his lectures and books, and the engravings of those photographs that were used in How the Other Half Lives helped to make the book popular.
A student of classical poetry and mythology, Enckell made use of classical parallels to dramatize the problems of his time in a series of verse plays including Orfeus och Eurydike (1938) and Alkman (1959).
