prose
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I wasn’t expecting Joan Didion-level prose, but I wanted the words to sound like they came from me.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
With prose so heartfelt and insightful, I was in tears by the preface.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
Her prose has an apt amount of literary embellishment: Jaguars are “light-footed dancers” and a snake bulges “like Saint-Exupéry’s hat.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
As a professional writer, Sarah Suzuki Harvard says she isn’t inclined toward overtly exuberant prose.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026
Then, for fear that its brief relapse into prose might have hardened the tyrant’s heart, it launched out breathlessly into Genevieve, tor the third time.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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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