prose

Defeniton about prose

1. Molière, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme .
For something to be written in neither verse nor prose. A philosophy master replied 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. Molière, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme .

2. John Gross, Introduction to The New Oxford Book of English Prose. Oxford Univ. Press, 1998
"Prose is the ordinary form of spoken or written language: it fulfills innumerable functions, and it can attain many different kinds of excellence. A well-argued legal judgment, a lucid scientific paper, a readily grasped set of technical instructions all represent triumphs of prose after their fashion. And quantity tells. Inspired prose may be as rare as great poetry--though I am inclined to doubt even that; but good prose is unquestionably far more common than good poetry. It is something you can come across every day: in a letter, in a newspaper, almost anywhere."

3. Richard Lanham, Analyzing Prose, 2nd ed. Continuum, 2003
"Our ideal prose, like our ideal typography, is transparent: if a reader doesn't notice it, if it provides a transparent window to the meaning, then the prose stylist has succeeded. But if your ideal prose is purely transparent, such transparency will be, by definition, hard to describe. You can't hit what you can't see. And what is transparent to you is often opaque to someone else. Such an ideal makes for a difficult pedagogy."

4. George Orwell, "Why I Write," 1946
Transparency in Prose

"[O]ne can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a window pane."

5. Governor Mario Cuomo, New Republic, April 8, 1985
"You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose."

6. Jeremy Bentham, quoted by M. St. J. Packe in The Life of John Stuart Mill, 1954

"Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it."

7. http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/definition-prose-kinds-prose-element-prose-191041
Prose exists on a variety of different levels. For instance, at one end of the spectrum is ordinary, colloquial speech. In contrast, at the other end is distinguished written discourse, or what John Dryden called “that other harmony of prose.”

8.John Cheever, on accepting the National Medal for Literature, 1982
"For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty."

9. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk, July 12, 1827
“prose = words in their best order; poetry = the best words in the best order."

10. Molière, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, 1671
All that is not prose is verse; and all that is not verse is prose.

So, prose is the most typical form of written language, applying ordinary grammatical structure and natural flow of speech rather than rhythmic structure as in traditional poetry. Prose is a text yang mengandung meaning and beautifull words.

Types of Prose

1.      Nonfictional Prose:

A literary work that is mainly based on fact although it may contain fictional elements in certain cases. Examples are biographies and essays.

2.      Fictional Prose:

A literary work that is wholly or partly imagined or theoretical. Examples are novels.

3.      Heroic Prose:

A literary work that may be written down or recited and employs many of the formulaic expressions found in oral tradition. Examples are legends and tales.

4.      Prose Poetry:

A literary work which exhibits poetic quality using emotional effects and heightenedimagery but are written in prose instead of verse .

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