prose
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It also earned 28-year-old Salam a place on the Observer's list of the best debut novelists of 2026, with the paper saying "his raucous, wildly inventive prose is bound for a much bigger audience".
From BBC • May 22, 2026
Osgood wrote two-minute reports in succinct prose delivered in his mellifluous tones.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
She developed, writes Ms. Lutz, a “weird, witchy” sense of humor, doodled violent images in the margins of her books and made a specialty, in her poetry and prose, of the “nocturnal and crepuscular.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
For someone with such a sensationalizing prose style, he had little tolerance for the shock of the new.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
In my first letter I had hoped to impress you with my brilliant prose, but that will have to wait for my second.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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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