In writing, what is prose? How do you know whether your work has prose or not?

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In writing, what is prose? How do you know whether your work has prose or not?

Prose is just something that confuses me, what is it exactly, are there things I can do to help me master it?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Prose writing is most often found in short stories, essays, novels, and journalism. My entire response is written in prose. Prose is characterized as sentence-driven writing, whereas poetry may forgo the sentence in order to challenge language.

This is a simple definition, since some poetry can be written in the form of prose with the content of poetry. Based on your question, it's clear that you understand prose; you didn't write your question as a poem.

If a piece of writing doesn't strike you as poetry or drama, you can safely assume that the writing is prose.