Forms of Prose Fiction

Forms Of Prose Fiction

Novel- a fictious prose story of a book length.

Novella- a short novel or narrative story; tale.

Short Story- a fully developed story that is shorter than a novella.

Element of Prose Fiction

Narrative Techniques- the narrative skills or types of writing used by the author.

Point of View- the way in which the narrator percieves and approaches to his material.

Characterization- the way in which a  writer creates his character in a play.

Setting- this involves the time, place, environment and surroundings presented in a play.

Theme- the main ideas of a play which in some cases obvious.

Plot- the main events in a novel.

Style- the characterizatic manner in which a writer expresses his or herself.

Literary Devices

Imagery- a writer's use of words to create pictures in the mind's of its readers.

Symbol- objects use to signify or represent something else.

Irony- saying the opposite of what was intended in order to make an emphasis.

Sattire- using humor or exaggeration to show the bad or weak qualities in a person or object.

Allusion- the reference of a passing historical or biblical event presented in a work of literature.

Structural Devices

Stream of Consciousness- a common narrative technique in a modern novel attempting to carry in word the process of  thoughts.

Interior Monologue- a passage of writing proceeding a character's inner thoughts and emotinos in a direct manner or sometimes in a distorted manner.

Flashback- going back in a film or play to an event that has already occured.

Foreshadowing- a sign of something that is to come.

Time Frame- a given interval of time in relation to a particular event.

Motif-  when some aspect in a literary work is frequently reoccuring.

Juxtoposition- side by side or close together.

Types of  Prose fiction

Novel

Novella

Short-story

Short-short Story- is a fictious work that is usually written in prose or narrative format.

Vignette- a short descriptive essay or character sketch.

Prose Poem-  a piece of imaginative poetic  writing in a prose.

Antinovel- a novel in which forms of a regular story is puposely avoided.

 Novelette- a short, light, romantic novel.

Types of fiction

Literary fiction- focuses on the style ,depth and character of a story. The plot may or may not be important.

Social Fiction- is  a story dicussing or speculating human behaviour or interactions in society.

Historical fiction- is a story set in the past. It is usually referred to historical persons but principal characters tend to be fictional.

Moral fiction- is a story fictiously set to attempt to test human values to promote human fulfillment.

Political Fiction- is  commentary used to criticize an existing society's political events.

Religious fiction- a fictious story that is based on religious texts or beliefs.

Ethnic fiction- a story based on the different races (mostly their background) either by degrading one race and praising the other.

Cultural Fiction- a fictious story based on actual events celebrated in different countries by different ethnicities.