ABSTRACT
The term prose fiction refers to a wide variety of literary forms relating imaginary events. The line between prose and poetry can be slight, for much prose brims with poetic potential; nonetheless, one can distinguish between them easily due to their formatting on a page. Prose in English runs from a text’s left to right margins, whereas a poem’s lines run according to the poet’s meter and phrasings, typically with more white space remaining on the page. These visual cues alert readers to a text’s primary identity as poetry or prose.
