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Prose

The ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse; derived from "straight forward". In composition, the subjective form of timely and topical journalism observes the Five W's (ie: who, what, when, where, why); while the stylistic function of storytelling is patterned upon the ABCDE's (ie: action, background, consequences, development, ending) of systematic writing. See story, essay, picaresque, vernacular, novel, literature, rhetorical forms, orality, OULIPO.

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