Prose vs Monologue - What's the difference?
prose | monologue |
Language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry.
* Milton
Language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.
(Roman Catholicism) A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass.
to write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way
* 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act I, Scene II, verses 189-190
(drama) A type of art that consist of soliloquy, a long speech by one person.
(comedy) A long series of comic stories and jokes as an entertainment.
A long, uninterrupted utterance that monopolizes a conversation.
To deliver a monologue.
* (Oliver Sacks), Seeing Voices
As nouns the difference between prose and monologue
is that prose is language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry while monologue is a type of art that consist of soliloquy, a long speech by one person.As verbs the difference between prose and monologue
is that prose is to write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way while monologue is to deliver a monologue.prose
English
(wikipedia prose)Noun
(en-noun)- Though known mostly for her prose , she also produced a small body of excellent poems.
- things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme
Antonyms
* poetry, verseDerived terms
* prose poem * purple proseVerb
- Pray, do not prose , good Ethelbert, but speak
- What is your purpose?
References
Anagrams
* ----monologue
English
Alternative forms
* monolog (qualifier)Noun
(wikipedia monologue) (en noun)Synonyms
* (drama) soliloquyAntonyms
* (a monopolizing utterance) dialogueSee also
* soliloquyVerb
(monologu)- Powerful parents, in her formulation, feeling themselves autonomous and powerful, give autonomy and power to their children; powerless ones, feeling themselves passive and controlled, in turn exert an excessive control on their children, and monologue at them, instead of having a dialogue with them.