Knowra Prose Prose Prose is language organized into sentences and paragraphs rather than metrical or verse lines. It includes forms ranging from conversation and essays to novels and reports.
Sentence : A grammatical unit that expresses a statement, question, command, or exclamation. Prose commonly develops through sequences of sentences rather than metrical lines.
Verse : Language arranged in lines, often shaped by meter, rhythm, or poetic conventions. Verse organizes language into lines, unlike prose’s usual sentence-and-paragraph flow.
Novel : A long work of fictional narrative, usually written in prose. The novel is a major form built around extended prose narration.
Narrative : An account of connected events, presented by a narrator in a particular order. Prose fiction often uses narrative to organize events and perspective.
Ancient Greek literature : Literature composed in ancient Greek, including poetry, drama, history, and philosophy. Greek prose developed alongside verse in history, philosophy, and rhetoric.
Paragraph : A group of related sentences organized around a unit of thought. Paragraph breaks divide prose into larger, visually distinct units.
Poetry : Literary language shaped by features such as imagery, sound, rhythm, or lineation. Poetry often uses verse, though prose poetry shows that the forms can overlap.
Short story : A brief work of fiction centered on a limited set of characters and events. Short stories use compressed prose to create a complete narrative.
Narrator : The voice or agent that tells a story. A prose narrator shapes what is told and how events are presented.
Herodotus : A fifth-century BCE Greek author whose Histories recount the Greco-Persian conflicts and related cultures. His Histories are an early major work of Greek prose narrative.
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