Prose and Tale

Prose

Prose noun - Ordinary writing as distinguished from verse.
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Synonyms for Prose

Tale and prose are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tale" instead a noun "Prose".

Nearby Words: prosaic, prosy, prosing

Tale

Tale noun - A rumor or report of a personal or sensational nature.

Prose and tale are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Prose" instead a noun "Tale".

Both words in one sentence

  • Literature / Tam Lin Tam Lin and Janet marry.Joseph Jacobs rewrote the ballad into a prose fairy tale, "Tamlane", published in his 1894 More English Fairy Tales.
  • While different, Gesta Danorum's tale and that recorded in Poetic Edda and Prose Edda are similar in some ways.
  • Purple Prose If you take all the purple prose out of A Tale of Two Cities, the book would be about 50 pages long.
    Source: Purple Prose
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