How to pronounce prose

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What prose means

noun

Plain writing in sentences, not poems

In a sentence: Our teacher asked us to write the story in prose instead of a rhyming poem.

Where it comes from: It comes from a Latin phrase meaning "straightforward speech," talk without the frills of poetry.

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