What Are The Elements Of Prose?
Prose is more or less the opposite of poetry. Basically, any written work that is not poetry is, by definition, prose. This includes, but is not limited to, newspaper articles, novels, brochures, this answer to your question, etc. This does NOT include reference materials, such as dictionaries, thesauruses, etc. Prose should include, as should most writing, complete sentences, correct punctuation, and correct grammar, to name a few. However, for artistic sake, recreational writing may bend the rules here and there. A particular author’s style may include sentence fragments, run-on sentences, and poor grammar. Sometimes, a character’s speech in a work requires such bending of the rules to convey certain aspects of such a character.
