prose
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As Ms. Prose writes, “the best times were when he was working too hard to think.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
Brooks and I had a drink after my Politics & Prose talk.
From Salon • Nov. 10, 2024
In her memoir, Francine Prose embodies her generation during a paradigm-shifting era that included the fallout of Watergate and the Vietnam War.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2024
Prose offers readers a front-row seat to the year in which all the promise and power of the 1960s finally withered and died — and the year she committed herself to life as a writer.
From Seattle Times • May 14, 2024
Prose becomes stuffy when an insecure writer hammers the reader over the head with redundant indicators of a connection, as if unsure that one would be enough.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing prose
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Literary Terms, Grade 6, Unit 1
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Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
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