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Prose logo #10101) Book fare 2) Common speech 3) Common writing 4) Commonplace writing 5) Dull discourse 6) Essay makeup 7) Essay 8) Everday writing 9) Everyday language 10) Everyday speech 11) Everyday text 12) Everyday writing 13) Form of writing 14) French word used in English 15) Genre 16) Genre of novels and essays
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Prose logo #10101) Knottedropes 2) Language 3) Nonfiction 4) Nonfictional
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  1. ordinary writing as distinguished from verse
  2. matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression

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Prose logo #21000 Prose is a form of language that exhibits a grammatical structure and a natural flow of speech rather than a rhythmic structure (as in traditional poetry). While there are critical debates on the construction of prose, its simplicity and loosely defined structure have led to its adoption for use in the majority of spoken dialogue, factual discours...
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prose logo #21032continuous, non-end-stopped writing that has other traits of poetry and is, from its context, associated with poems.
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Prose logo #21002• (v. t.) To write in prose. • (v. i.) To write prose. • (a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, prose; not in verse; as, prose composition. • (v. t.) To write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way. • (a.) Possessing or exhibiting unpoetical characteristics; plain; dull; prosaic; as, the prose duties of life. • (n.) H...
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prose logo #20688Spoken or written language without regular metre; in literature, prose corresponds more closely to the patterns of everyday speech than poetry, and often uses standard grammar and syntax and...
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prose logo #209731. The ordinary language of men in speaking or writing; language not cast in poetical measure or rhythm; contradistinguished from verse, or metrical composition. 'I speak in prose, and let him rymes make.' (Chaucer) 'Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.' (Milton) 'I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and ...
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Prose logo #22385Any material that is not written in a regular meter like poetry. Many modern genres such as short st
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Prose logo #20972Prose noun [ French prose , Latin prosa , from prorsus , prosus , straight forward, straight on, for proversus ; pro forward + versus , past participle of vertere to turn. See Verse .] 1. The ordinary language of men in speakin...
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Prose logo #20972Prose adjective 1. Pertaining to, or composed of, prose; not in verse; as, prose composition. 2. Possessing or exhibiting unpoetical characteristics; plain; dull; prosaic; as, the prose duties of life.
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Prose logo #20972Prose intransitive verb 1. To write prose. « Prosing or versing, but chiefly this latter.» Milton.
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Prose logo #20972Prose transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Prosed ; present participle & verbal noun Prosing .] 1. To write in prose. 2. To write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way.
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prose logo #21063Any piece of writing that is not presented in lines but narrated in normal form of spoken or written language, e.g. short stories, novels, drama, but also newspaper reports, essays, speeches etc. The coherent text may only be interrupted by paragraphs.
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Prose logo #21217Prose is ordinary spoken or written language, untrammelled by poetic measure, and thus used in contradistinction to verse or poetry.
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prose logo #20400[n] - matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression 2. [n] - ordinary writing as distinguished from verse
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Prose logo #23818Prose is just non-verse writing. Pretty much anything other than poetry counts as prose.
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Prose logo #20815 written language which does not follow poetic or dramatic forms.
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prose logo #20974 noun ordinary writing as distinguished from verse
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prose logo #21221Spoken or written language without regular metre; in literature, prose corresponds more closely to the patterns of everyday speech than poetry, and often uses standard grammar and syntax and traditional rhetoric to achieve its ends. In Western literature prose was traditionally used for what is today called non-fiction – that is, histo...
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