Prose is the natural style of speaking and writing, with absence of musicality, rhyme, rhythm and other particularities of the poetic structure. It consists of the everyday conversation used by people to rationally express themselves.
The prose text is objective and unambiguous, usually presenting an analysis and narration on a certain subject, for example.
There are two main types of prose: narrative and demonstrative. THE narrative prose it is fictional history, like short stories, chronicles, novels and novels, for example, a set that forms the so-called "literary prose".
already the demonstrative prose or non-literary refers to the discourse that is more didactic, such as essays, letters, dialogues, treatises, journalistic and technical texts.
Popularly, the expression "two fingers of prose" to indicate that a person wants to chat with another person without formalities.
In the figurative sense of the word, prose can still be synonymous with cunning person, who has a lot of talk or an excess of pride.
Example: "Your boyfriend was full of prose yesterday".
This term originated directly from the Latin prose, which means "direct and free communication".
Learn more about narrative meaning and read about The Types of Art.
Prose and Poetry
They are both distinct and opposing literary styles. While prose dispenses with the use of a harmonious structure, with the use of rhythms, verses and stanzas, for example, poetry is composed of all these elements.
Learn more about meaning of poetry.
poetic prose
Poetic prose is the text that presents prose form but poetry function, using for this some typical characteristics of poetic texts, such as alliteration, metaphor, sound of sentences, etc. But, the structure of the speech remains elongated, resembling a novel or short story, for example.
See too:
- Poetry, poem, prose and sonnet