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Prose: meaning, example and synonyms

Prosen. Ordinary written language without meter or rhyme, as opposed to verse.

Flashcard for Prose (noun): ordinary written language without meter or rhyme, as opposed to verse. Example: Although the novelist was admired for her spare, precise prose, her early letters reveal a writer who once favored ornate sentences crowded with metaphor. Synonyms: writing, text, narrative, composition. Antonyms: verse, poetry, rhyme. Memory tip: Prose runs straight on in paragraphs; poetry breaks into lines. Illustration: a writer in a cardigan at a wooden desk by a sunny window, filling pages with long even paragraphs shown only as illegible gray lines, a neat stack of finished pages beside her; no readable words.

Example

Although the novelist was admired for her spare, precise prose, her early letters reveal a writer who once favored ornate sentences crowded with metaphor.

Part of speech
noun
Synonyms
writing, text, narrative, composition
Antonyms
verse, poetry, rhyme
Memory tip
Prose runs straight on in paragraphs; poetry breaks into lines.

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Check yourself: Prose in context

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Question 1

Unlike the poet's tightly rhymed sonnets, her ______ flows in long, unbroken paragraphs that wander from memory to observation without any fixed meter.

Question 2

The translator faced a choice: render the ancient epic in rhyming verse, preserving its music, or in plain ______ that would convey its meaning more faithfully.

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