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Gives background information Provides conflict - Man vs. The novel is the longest genre of narrative prose followed by the novella and the short story. Sometimes, students ask how long a novel should be — in order to be more than a novella or a short story. This question is very important but it is difficult to ascertain specifically, the number of pages in each category. The novella is by contrast focused on a point, the short story on a situation whose full dimensions the reader has to grasp in a less complex process of interpretation.
The requirement of length is actually secondary to the requirement of a certain perspective on life. As a guide on volume in prose fiction, we present the following: Short story is a work of at least 2, words but under 7, words. It is the emotional feeling that one gets as one reads a particular work. This feeling is stronger in some works than in others. Language plays an important role here. The choice of words by the author helps to convey the desired atmosphere.
The atmosphere is further heightened by the tempo of the action, the quality and clarity of the dialogue Ezeigbo Many novelists evoke atmosphere very well in their works. For instance, Festus Iyayi evokes the atmosphere of violence and depravity in his novel, Violenceand this is achieved through dialogue and vivid description of events in the book. The atmosphere in a work can change from one event or situation to the other. It is usually elicited in the narration without the writer pointing it out or making direct comment.
A good writer presents the C Tone could be that of contempt, ridicule, condemnation, admiration, exhortation and so on. Like in atmosphere, tone could change in the course of a narration. The writer in prose fiction tries to present an interesting story and this is achieved through the portrayal of life-like events and incidents. This is called the verisimilitude. She or he achieves this through a proper manipulation of language to create appropriate and credible atmosphere. In this article, we have presented the basic characteristics of prose fiction.
The novel can be defined as an extended work of prose fiction. The novel has become an increasingly popular form of fiction since the early eighteenth century, though prose narratives were written long before then. The term denotes a prose narrative about characters and their actions in what is recognisably everyday life.
This differentiates it from its immediate predecessor, the romance, which describes unrealistic adventures of supernatural heroes. The novel has developed various sub-genres: In the epistolary novel the narrative is conveyed entirely by an exchange of letters. Samuel Richardson, Pamela. A picaresque novel is an early form of the novel, some call it a precursor of the novel.
It is usually episodic in structure, the episodes often arranged as a journey. The form of the picaresque narrative emerged C The historical novel takes its setting and some of the chief characters and events from history. It develops these elements with attention to the known facts and makes the historical events and issues important to the central narrative.
Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities The bildungsroman novel of education is a type of novel originating in Germany which presents the development of a character mostly from childhood to maturity.
This process typically contains conflicts and struggles, which are ideally overcome in the end so that the protagonist can become a valid and valuable member of society. Examples are J. The gothic novel became very popular from the second half of the eighteenth century onwards.
With the aim to evoke chilling terror by exploiting mystery and a variety of horrors, the gothic novel is usually set in desolate landscapes, ruined abbeys, or medieval castles with dungeons, winding staircases and sliding panels.
Heroes and heroines find themselves in gloomy atmospheres where they are confronted with supernatural forces, demonic powers and wicked tyrants. The social novel, also called industrial novel or Condition of England novel, became particularly popular between and and is associated with the development of nineteenth-century realism.
As its name indicates, the social novel gives a portrait of society, especially of lower parts of society, dealing with and criticising the living conditions created by industrial development or by a particular legal situation the poor laws for instance.
Its topics include quests for other worlds, the influence of alien beings on Earth or alternate realities; they can be utopian, dystopian or set in the past. Common to all types of science fiction is the interest in scientific change and development and concern for social, climatic, geological or ecological change e. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; H. Metafiction is a term given to fictional writing which self-consciously and systematically draws attention to its status as an artefact in order to pose questions about the relationship between fiction and reality.
It concentrates on the phenomenological characteristics of fiction, and investigates into the quintessential nature of literary art by reflecting the process of narrating. It typically deploys monodimensional or static characters who are sharply discriminated as heroes or villains, masters or victims.
The protagonist is often solitary and isolated from a social context, the plot emphasises adventure, and is often cast in the form of a quest for an ideal or the pursuit of an enemy. The plot may be comic, tragic, romantic, or satiric. It may be written in the mode of fantasy, realism or naturalism. The events can be related chronologically, or the story may begin with later incidents before going back to let the reader know how things reached that point.
Characters may simply be described, or they may reveal themselves through dialogue and action. The main character in a work is called the protagonist. The author may choose any of six ways to reveal a character to the reader. Usually, the character terms see above are used in the course of the description. The setting s may be very important to the overall meaning and purpose of a story.
There are two parts to a complete setting: emotional and physical. The mood or atmosphere of a story is the emotional setting, so readers need to concentrate on words that evoke feeling and emotion. The time, place, and season comprise the physical setting, so readers need to concentrate on words that describe physical details.
While more than one point of view may be used in a story, stories are often told in either first-or third-person point of view. The reader is restricted to the observations, thoughts, and feelings of whatever character is narrating. Hence, the narrator may or may not be entirely reliable.
In either case, the narrator may remain neutral with regard to characters and events, or the narrator may evaluate thoughts and actions for the reader. Symbolism: Any person, object, setting, name or event that suggests more than its literal meaning can be a symbol. Symbolic meanings are not so much hidden in a story, as they are carefully placed and woven into the texture of the work.
To identify and interpret symbols in a story, pay close attention to language and apply common sense. Some symbols are standard or conventional, appearing throughout literature, while others may be highly unusual authorial and gain their significance from the context of the individual work in which they appear.
Theme: The theme of a story is the idea which binds the elements of the story together. It may be explicitly stated, or it may be communicated entirely through the elements of the C The theme is essentially the truth or comment on life that the author intends to communicate to the reader. In addition to what the author of a work intended to say at the time a story was written, however, a work may also have other meanings and significance to readers of a different time period.
Consequently, one interpretation of a story is NOT just as good as any other. While multiple interpretations of a work of literature are possible, good interpretations are based on evidence from the text and make sense of as many of the elements of the work as possible.
Style, Tone, and Irony: The characteristic manner in which an author uses language to create specific effects constitutes his or her style, and is influenced by such things as word choice, diction, sentence length and structure, tone, and irony. Tone reveals the attitude taken by the author or narrator toward characters, places, and events—whether that attitude is sympathetic, humorous, indifferent, angry, etc.
Indeed, without paying careful attention to tone, one may miss irony—a figure of speech in which the actual intent of words is expressed in words that carry the opposite meaning.
This means that the story presented in the novel is fictitious. We will therefore commence our definition of the novel by first of all defining prose fiction. You can see that we have been mentioning story in our definition of fiction. Stories are usually narrated by someone, orally or written. This means that prose fiction is presented in a narrative form. There are other forms of prose that are presented in a narrative form that are not classified as prose fiction.
Can you mention some examples? Some of them include essays, biographies, some historical accounts and many others. For instance, biography is presented in a narrative form but it is a factual account of the life of an individual.
Also the fact that prose fiction tells a story that is not true distinguishes it from history which is a factual account of events that took place in the life of a people or a nation with real names of the participants, actual dates and identifiable locations like towns, countries or villages. This is history and not prose fiction. The novel is the longest form of prose fiction followed by the novella while the short story is the shortest. The length of any genre of prose fiction is measured by the number of pages that make up that particular work.
It is said that the short story is so short that it can be contained in as few as five to twenty five pages pages ; the novella, about sixty to one hundred and seventy pages while any work in that genre that is above that is categorised as novel.
Another important factor in the novel is that though it is fiction, it is presented in a realistic manner and presents a slice of life known as verisimilitude. This means that events are presented in a way that it will look like a real life story; factual account but they are not.
In the novel we extend our sympathies. This helps us to understand an aspect of human life that we would have missed if we did not read the novel which is an extension of life. When we empathise with others, we also understand them.
The novel presents the closest imitation of life because of empathy and sympathy in it whereby the readers identify themselves with the characters. The personal hero is sometimes referred to as the protagonist. The novelist represents the social, political, and personal realities of a place and period with clarity and details that make it very close to life.
A novel could be based on history but the author uses vivid and graphic representations of characters and incidents to present an entertaining story.
The language used by novelists is distinct and this enables the author to C It is different from the novel in English which could be the novel of any continent, country or locality but written in English language.
In English novel, each writer presents his or her perspective of the English society at that particular time in the history of the people. The present form of the English novel was originally serialised to the audience and to a large extent this influenced the author, because sometimes the author conceded to the demand of the reading public in the plotting and structure of the novel. For instance, the marriage between Pip and Esther in Charles Dickens Great Expectations was said to have been influenced by the reading public.
The emergence of the English novel was influenced by several factors which were historical, moral, structural, and the subject matter at every stage of its development. Consequently, the novel presents many character types, detailed and vivid description of incidents, action, setting and general environment and atmosphere that are appear life-like.
The character is revealed as the story moves through suspense, climax and resolution of conflicts In this unit we have tried to explain prose fiction and linked it to the novel. You have learnt that the novel is a long narrative and fictitious story that presents a slice of life through the representation of events that seem realistic. It tells a story that deals with cultural, social and political issues in the world but the characters are not known human beings but relate to themselves like people in the real world.
The setting is also imaginary unlike the setting in history which is real. You learnt also that the English novel refers to novels written by English men and women about the English people and environment. We also tried to C We also explained that prose fiction is an aspect of literature that is presented in a narrative form.
It is an invented story which means that it is not real. In prose fiction therefore, the writer tells a fictitious story to his readers to educate or entertain or to do both.
Prose fiction refers to any narrative presented in prose form and is not factual. The genres of prose fiction are the short story, the novella and the novel. The novel is the longest and most popular form of prose fiction which presents human experience to educate and entertain the readers by telling stories that deal with life-like situations. The events could be contemporary or historical accounts manipulated by the writer and presented in a fictional manner.
The f ormer means a presentation of spoken or written words in a narrative manner while the latter means a non-realistic account. Prose fiction is therefore an imaginary work that is presented in a narrative form. It is a literary genre that presents human experience to educate and entertain the readers. It tells a story that deals with cultural, social and political issues in the world but the characters are not real known human beings but bear human traits and dispositions.
Although the story in prose fiction is fictitious, it contains identifiable characters, locations and incidents and these add to make the story that is presented as realistic as possible. Prose fiction is different from history which is a documentation of past realistic events. We also tried to differentiate prose fiction from history since both of them tell stories.
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Now let's take a more in-depth look at the most common elements in literature. Each term in the literary elements list below gives you the literary element definition and an example of how the elements work. The most important literary element is language. Learn elements of prose literature with free interactive flashcards.
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Students must use a manuscript in Prose, which typically consists of a small three-ring binder with page protectors. Reading from a book or magazine is prohibited. Br views.
Throughout elementsthe reader should be able to reconstruct from your prose what the author was aiming at, and why, even if you feel the author has not achieved it.
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