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Novels, essays, short stories, and works of criticism are examples of prose. Other examples include: comedy, drama, fable, fiction, folk tale, hagiography, legend, literature, myth, narrative, saga, science fiction, story, theme, tragedy.
Prose lacks the more formal metrical structure of verse that is almost always found in traditional poetry. Poems often involve a meter and/or rhyme scheme. Prose, instead, comprises full, grammatical sentences, which then constitute paragraphs and overlook aesthetic appeal. Some works of prose do contain traces of metrical structure or versification and a conscious blend of the two literature formats is known as prose poetry. Similarly, any work of verse with fewer rules and restrictions is known as free verse. Verse is considered to be more systematic or formulaic, whereas prose is the most reflective of ordinary (often conversational) speech. On this point Samuel Taylor Coleridge requested, jokingly, that novice poets should know the "definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose,—words in their best order; poetry,—the best words in their best order."[1] In Molière's play Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, Monsieur Jourdain asked for something to be written in neither verse nor prose. A philosophy master replied that "there is no other way to express oneself than with prose or verse," for the simple reason being that "everything that is not prose is verse, and everything that is not verse is prose."[2]
[edit] Tags:Literature,Drama,Comedy,Verse,Philosophy,Novels,Essays,Fable,Fiction,Folk Tale,Hagiography,Legend,Myth,Narrative,Saga,Science Fiction,Story,Theme,Poetry,Meter,Versification,Molière, | |
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^ "Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)". University of Chicago reconstruction.. http://machaut.uchicago.edu/websters. Retrieved 2010-01-31.
^ "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme". English translation accessible via Project Gutenberg. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2992/2992-h/2992-h.htm. Retrieved 2010-01-31.
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