PROSE  散文

LITERARY GENRE that is not a POEM.
WORKSCOMPOSITIONSBOOKSPUBLICATIONSOEUVREPAPERSARTICLESESSAYS
Antonym
  • SONGPOEM SUNG CONFORMING to a MELODY.
    Hypernym
    • LITERARY GENRECATEGORY of LITERATURE.
      • CATEGORYABSTRACT CONCEPT REFERRING TYPICALLY to MANY THINGS with RESEMBLING FEATURES.
        • CONCEPTABSTRACT DEFINED IDEA of OBJECTS of THOUGHT.
          • IDEAWHAT one THINKS....
    See also
    • WRITEPRODUCE a DOCUMENT.
      Modern Chinese Criteria
      散文

      小品

      小品文

      漫筆

      隨筆

      rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH /

      Words

        cí OC: zɯ MC: zɨ 8 AttributionsWD

        Word relations
      • Epithet: 虛/EMPTY The most geneal word is xū 虛 (ant. shí 實 "substantial and full") which can refer both to physical emptiness of a space and to abstract emptiness or tenuousness as a philosophical concept.
      • Epithet: 淫/UNRESTRAINED Yín 淫 can come to refer to extravagance as a symptom of general indulgence.
      • Epithet: 辯 / 辨/ELOQUENT The current general term for articulate rhetorical ability is biàn 辯 (ant. nè 訥 "be tongue-tied").
      • Contrast: 文/PROSE
      • Contrast: 言/SPEAK Yán 言 is to speak up, propose, typically in public, and on one's own initiative, to maintain something, and the word can indroduce direct speech as well as occasionally very limited indirect speech.
      • Contrast: 語/SPEAK Yǔ 語 is to say something as part of typically informal conversation. Contrast yù 語 "tell, inform" in REPORT.
      • Oppos: 事/ACT Shì 事 (ant.* xián 閒 "take it easy") primarily focusses on action as part of the fulfilment of a duty imposed by one's station in life or a task one has set oneself. [PRESCRIBED], [PUBLIC!], [RESPONSIBLE]

        Syntactic words
      • nabtextLH: 出口為言,集札為辭 expression; pronouncement; phrasing; text; discourse; rhetoric of speech 
        wén OC: mɯn MC: mi̯un 1 AttributionWD

        Word relations
      • Contrast: 辭/PROSE
      • Oppos: 言/SPEAK Yán 言 is to speak up, propose, typically in public, and on one's own initiative, to maintain something, and the word can indroduce direct speech as well as occasionally very limited indirect speech.

        Syntactic words
      • nprose
        bǐ OC: prud MC: pit 1 AttributionWD
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      • nabmethodnon-artistic prose; style
        pián OC: been MC: ben 0 AttributionsWD
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      • nLIU ZONGYUAN: parallelistic generally unrhymed prose
      儷辭  lì cí OC: b-reels zɯ MC: lei zɨ
      麗辭  lì cí OC: b-reels zɯ MC: lei zɨ 0 AttributionsWD
        Syntactic words
      • NP{vadN}WENXINDIAOLONG 35, LIU ZHIJI: patterned parallelistic prose
      麗文  lì wén OC: b-reels mɯn MC: lei mi̯un 0 AttributionsWD
        Syntactic words
      • NP{vadN}patterned prose

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