prose
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3.1
- noun
- /proʊz/
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prosa
- The author's prose is both engaging and easy to understand.
- prose and poetry
- prose poem
- poetic prose
Jefferson is the best prose stylist of the founders.
- Jefferson is the best prose stylist of the founders.
- You will hear about the rhythm of prose and about the rhythm of gospel.
- So I thought I would just read a couple of the prose sections.
- She was continually working on different prose pieces in the form of short stories and novels.
- And then there's the dream that prose should wear a poem's guise at last.
- And he made his prose a kind of music that almost anybody could read.
- So he understood how to put deeply complex ideas into very readable prose.
- I adore Christopher Hitchens, his humour, his charm and his frankly enviable prose.
- And and this is how how prose should be written.
- It doesn't have to be poetry, prose, the screen writing.
- And then it was it prose or was it poetry?
- She writes beautiful, beautiful words and prose and it is in the service not of fiction.
- This rarely happens, I would say quite rarely happens in prose.
Examples
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He wooed her with romantic prose.
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The urgent need I felt was to tell a story in prose, a science-fiction story.
Fiction book (1993) -
And he made his prose a kind of music that almost anybody could read.
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What I try to achieve in my prose is a sense of flight.
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Another high point for the class was our study of the Victorian prose writers.
Academic text (2011) -
I'd love to read your prose sometime.
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That's an excellent piece of prose.
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He was really quite an extraordinary writer of prose fiction.
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Your prose is brilliant.
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I admire the breadth of his research, the directness of his prose, and the power of his ideas.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
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1.1
How an author uses words and sentences in their texts
Compounds
How Poetic
Surface Forms
Etymology
Prose comes from the Latin prosa, which meant 'straightforward' or 'plain' speech, so prose is ordinary written or spoken language without the rhythm or lines of poetry.