ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsPprose
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prose
Meaning: ordinary written or spoken language without a regular rhythmic structure
prose in a sentence
How prose is used in real sentences:
The novelist's prose was clear and direct, without any flowery language.
Unlike the rhyming verses earlier in the collection, the final chapter was written entirely in prose.
“At night, Ortiz turned those records into clear prose, linking each bird's daily choices to conditions across its territory.”
— from the passage The Winter Choice
Where it comes from
From Latin prosa oratio 'straightforward speech'
Memory hook
PROSE sounds like flows — plain writing that just flows in sentences, not rhymes.