Copperfield Sentence Examples

When you think of massively popular celebrities, you probably don’t think of Charles Dickens. But he was a literary rock star who enjoyed an unusual amount of popularity during his lifetime by appealing to a mass readership with unique turns-of-phrase and British slang words. His work was so popular that these words (many of which he invented) made their way from slang into proper English vocabulary, and even into our modern speech and writing.

Prose comes from the Latin prosa which means "straightforward." Prose can be written or spoken and has no formal metrical structure. It is basically ordinary language — the way people speak. Explore prose examples in nonfiction, comedy, fiction, plays, and more.