Crossword clues for prose
prose
- Novelist's output
- Form of writing
- Writing that isn't poetry
- Without rhyme, but with reason
- Rhyme-free writing
- Novel material
- Not poetry
- Natural language
- Literary output
- Flowery writing
- Writing lacking meter
- Verse alternative
- Unmetered writing
- Twain lines
- Some writing
- Purple ___ (flowery writing)
- Poetry's opposite
- Poetry alternative
- Plain text
- London lines
- It may be purple
- It couldn't be verse
- Essay, say
- Commonplace writing
- Written language
- Writing that's not poetry
- Writing in biographies
- Writing form
- Writing field
- Writer's style
- Verse inverse?
- Unlike most of Shakespeare
- Unimaginative discourse
- Typical writing
- Standard speaking
- Standard paragraphs
- Sometimes purple output
- Purple or measured
- Plain-old paragraph
- Novel writing
- Novel text
- Novel filler
- Not verse
- Much writing
- Most text
- Matter-of-fact discourse
- Man's ordinary speech
- Literary medium
- Language of a novel
- Joyce's forte
- It's polished at one's desk
- It's not poetry
- It's not good if it's purple
- It's no verse
- It's "architecture, not interior decoration": Hemingway
- It isn't poetry
- Genus of literature
- Form of ordinary language
- Essayist's writing
- Essay makeup
- Conversational literature
- Beastie Boys "Flowin' ___"
- Ordinary talk
- Ordinary lines
- Stories
- Ordinary writing, as opposed to poetry
- Unversed?
- Text
- It's unmetered
- Simple writing
- Nonpoetic writing
- Plain speaking
- "Purple" writing
- Plain writing
- Novel or essay
- An essayist's work is in it
- Writing style
- Novel content
- Plain English
- Everyday speech
- Purple stuff, perhaps
- Regular writing
- Novel writing, e.g.
- Novel writing, e.g
- "Always be a poet, even in ___": Baudelaire
- Ordinary writing as distinguished from verse
- Matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression
- Book fare
- Some literature
- Thackeray's forte
- Plain language
- Ordinary language
- Mailer's output
- Malamud's forte
- Hawthorne's forte
- What people speak
- Journalese, e.g.
- Everyday writing
- Ordinary speech or language
- Henry James's forte
- Matter-of-fact language
- Flaubert's forte
- Bacon's forte
- Oates output
- Dull discourse
- Writing medium
- Journalese, e.g
- Proust product
- Writings not in verse
- Writing in support of case of sabotage
- Sue ignoring charming writing
- Speaker’s arguments for ordinary writing
- Language test went up by a penny
- Page by girl, not poetic writing
- Type of writing of period seen regularly
- Plain talk
- Narrative writing
- Literary genre
- Most writing
- The written word
- Poetry's counterpart
- Novel makeup
- Everyday language
- Matter-of-fact writing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prose \Prose\, n. [F. prose, L. prosa, fr. prorsus, prosus, straight forward, straight on, for proversus; pro forward + versus, p. p. of vertere to turn. See Verse.]
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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 poetry, that is; prose -- words in their best order; poetry -- the best order.
--Coleridge. Hence, language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.
(R. C. Ch.) A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass. See Sequence.
Prose \Prose\, a.
Pertaining to, or composed of, prose; not in verse; as, prose composition.
Possessing or exhibiting unpoetical characteristics; plain; dull; prosaic; as, the prose duties of life.
Prose \Prose\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prosed; p. pr. & vb. n. Prosing.]
To write in prose.
To write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way.
Prose \Prose\, v. i. 1. To write prose.
Prosing or versing, but chiefly this latter.
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "story, narration," from Old French prose (13c.), from Latin prosa oratio "straightforward or direct speech" (without the ornaments of verse), from prosa, fem. of prosus, earlier prorsus "straightforward, direct," from Old Latin provorsus "(moving) straight ahead," from pro- "forward" (see pro-) + vorsus "turned," past participle of vertere "to turn" (see verse).\n\n"Good prose, to say nothing of the original thoughts it conveys, may be infinitely varied in modulation. It is only an extension of metres, an amplification of harmonies, of which even the best and most varied poetry admits but few."
[Walter Savage Landor, "Imaginary Conversations"]
\nMeaning "prose writing; non-poetry" is from mid-14c. The sense of "dull or commonplace expression" is from 1680s, out of earlier sense "plain expression" (1560s). Those who lament the want of an English agent noun to correspond to poet might try prosaist (1776), proser (1620s), or Frenchified prosateur (1880), though the first two in their day also acquired in English the secondary sense "dull writer."Wiktionary
n. 1 Language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry. 2 Language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse. 3 (context Roman Catholicism English) A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass. vb. to write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way
WordNet
n. ordinary writing as distinguished from verse
matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "prose".
This lyrical style was the first aspect of his prose that attracted general attention to his individuality.
I feel that Steven Brust has this whole catalog of virtues - solid plotting, good prose, insightful characterizations and fine dialogue.
Yes, I feel that Steven Brust has this whole catalog of virtues - solid plotting, good prose, insightful characterizations and fine dialogue.
In the wake of the groundbreaking prose fiction written by members of the Natural school, literary realists in mid-nineteenth-century Russia were able to use food imagery and fictional meals in their works in less Rabelaisian and more mimetically purposeful ways: that is, as metonyms or synecdoches through which to describe contemporary social reality.
Lindeth and Tiffany enjoyed a quiet flirtation, Sir Ralph gave the Nonesuch a long and involved account of his triumph over someone who had tried to get the better of him in a bargain, Courtenay fidgeted about the room, and Lady Colebatch prosed to Miss Trent with all the placidity of one to whom time meant nothing.
The next morning Patu called and made me a present of his prose panegyric on the Marechal de Saxe.
My brother Lionel is, no doubt, an excellent penman, but when it comes to genius such as yours, Sergeant, you need a light touch and a real gift for writing prose.
What with struggling with an 18-page glossary of terms, and concentrating on perfervid prose which makes that of H.
The texts of the motets were generally in prose, and the early polyphonists saw no obvious reason for imposing upon this essentially rectilinear material a circular musical form.
Commend us to one picturesque, garrulous old fellow, like Froissart, or Philip de Comines, or Bishop Burnet, before all the philosophic prosers that ever prosed.
Instead of versifying prose, they found it necessary, because of the nature of their art form, to prosify verse.
But his whole teaching and practice tended towards an identity of speech between prose and verse, the prosodical pattern or ornament being the sole feature which distinguished the latter from the former.
Here is a writer who has been around for three decades, and who is perhaps the premier stylist in the science fiction genre in terms of fusing prose, tone, viewpoint, content and mood into a seamless synergetic whole.
But here, as we are about to attempt a description hitherto unassayed either in prose or verse, we think proper to invoke the assistance of certain aerial beings, who will, we doubt not, come kindly to our aid on this occasion.
Similarly, take a bit of unpunctuated prose, add the dots and flourishes in the right place, stand back, and what have you got?