| 单词 | prose |
| 释义 | prose (once / 318 pages) n Prose is so-called "ordinary writing" — made up of sentences and paragraphs, without any metrical (or rhyming) structure. If you write, "I walked about all alone over the hillsides," that's prose. If you say, "I wondered lonely as a cloud/that floats on high o'er vales and hills" that's poetry. See the difference? (Let's not get into prose poetry!) From prose we get the term prosaic, meaning "ordinary" or "commonplace," or lacking the specially delicacy and beauty of its supposed opposite — poetry. WORD FAMILYprose: prosaic, proses+/prosaic: prosaically, prosaicness USAGE EXAMPLESIt’s 55 minutes of poetry and prose, at the Public Theater. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Following Ms. Fisher’s death on Tuesday, some novelists praised her prose as being as blunt, funny and honest — much like Ms. Fisher. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) Ms. Fisher’s vivid prose, wicked humor and striking performances inevitably led many people, including herself, to wonder whether bipolar mania fuels creativity. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) 1n ordinary writing as distinguished from verse Hypo|Hyper euphuism an elegant style of prose of the Elizabethan period; characterized by balance and antithesis and alliteration and extended similes with and allusions to nature and mythology nonfiction, nonfictional proseprose writing that is not fictional interior monologuea literary genre that presents a fictional character's sequence of thoughts in the form of a monologue stream of consciousnessa literary genre that reveals a character's thoughts and feeling as they develop by means of a long soliloquy prose poemprose that resembles poetry polyphonic prosea rhythmical prose employing the poetic devices of alliteration and assonance articlenonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication genre, literary genre, writing style a style of expressing yourself in writing 2n matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression Hyper expressive style, style a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period |
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