Prose vs Fiction - What's the difference?
prose | fiction |
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
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Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
(uncountable) Invention.
As nouns the difference between prose and fiction
is that prose is language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry while fiction is literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.As a verb prose
is to write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way.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
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English
(wikipedia fiction)Noun
(en noun)- The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions .
- I am a great reader of fiction .
- The butler’s account of the crime was pure fiction .
