expressive style vs prose

prose vs expressive style

expressive style and prose both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
expressive style	Yes	No	No	No
prose	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, prose is a hyponym of expressive style; that is, prose is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than expressive style:

expressive style: a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period
prose: matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression

Other hyponyms of expressive style include allegory, analysis, bathos, black humor, black humour, device, eloquence, fluency, smoothness, euphuism, flatness, expression, formulation, grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric, headlinese, jargon, journalese, legalese, delivery, manner of speaking, speech, officialese, pathos, rhetoric, coarseness, saltiness, self-expression, sesquipedality, terseness, turn of expression, turn of phrase, vein, verboseness, verbosity, genre, literary genre, writing style, poetry, digressiveness.

expressive style (noun)	prose (noun)
a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period	ordinary writing as distinguished from verse
	matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression

Difference between expressive style and prose

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