prose

Examples

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• The novel is filled with dull prose that fails to engage the reader.

• So here's an example of the kind of prose that I have to wade through during my working day.

• Oh, and the prose, my friends, the prose.

• It's very much just the prose and it works.

• I tried not to get too carried away with the prose.

  Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999)

• Greater attention needs to be paid to accountability to back up the prose of legislation and national guidelines.

  Academic text (2004)

• We are all too familiar with the kind of writer who dispenses prose such as the following.

• Why did she spend so many hours poring over the drab prose of a man she loathed?

  Fiction book (1999)

• More stories are ruined by the writer's stubborn attachment to his own overwrought prose than by almost anything else.

  Fiction book (1999)

• One of the characteristics of Shand's prose is the spareness, the lack of excess or ornamentation.

  Academic text (1997)

Synonyms

W

writing

vsprose

206 1.1

How an author uses words and sentences in their texts

is ordinary, unimaginative language rather than varied or artistic expression

Antonyms

P

poetry

• Literature

60 2.4

Beautiful expression that makes people feel deep emotion

Compounds

P

prose poem

• Literature

1 7.1

A short piece of writing in ordinary sentences that reads like a poem

N

nonfictional prose

4.3

Writing about real events, people, or facts rather than made-up stories

P

polyphonic prose

• Literature

9.9

Rhythmic writing that uses repeated sounds to sound like music

How Imaginative

poetry

• Literature

60 2.4

expressive style

4.8

prose poem

• Literature

1 7.1

prose

12 4.2

banality

10 7.2

Surface Forms

Etymology