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Prose and fiction

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Sahil Ryan

This document defines prose, fiction, and novels. Prose is ordinary written language without rhythmic or visual structures like poetry. Fiction includes novels and stories that describe imaginary people and events. A novel is defined as a long narrative story in prose that deals with imaginary characters and events, containing elements like characters, plot, setting, point of view, theme, and conflict. Plot refers to a series of logically connected events. There are three main types of plots: simple plots that start and end linearly; organic plots that start fresh and end with the central events remembered, often happily; and loose plots that include digressions where the author departs from the central topic.

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Prose and Fiction PROSE: Written language in its ordinary form rather than poetry. Writing or speech in its normal continuous form, without the rhythmic or visual line structure of poetry. FICTION: Literary works of imagination: novels and stories that describe imaginary people and events. WHAT IS NOVEL? “A long story in prose.”, “A genre of literature, it’s a narration of events, incidents and actions having characters, plot, setting, point of view, theme, conflict and style. Character is the who, plot is the what, setting is the where and when, theme is the how of a story. Italian “novella” Means ‘new story’, ‘ new thing’ NOVEL ANOTHER DEFINITION OF NOVEL: “A long narrative in prose dealing with the action of imaginary people.
Plot: “A series of events having logical connection among them”. Simple Plot: It simply starts and than comes to an end. A B Organic (Organism) Plot: It’s a type of that starts fresh and ends point to be remember it does not have any backwards going I.e. Flash backs mostly it ends happily. Beginning Middle End
Loose Plot: This type of plot mostly has digression: exaggeration or departure from central topic. In literature when author during writing a scene he gets away from his central point and start a new story that is called digression and such plot that has digression called loose plot. Shakespeare and Charles Dickens were notorious for loose plot.

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Prose and fiction

  • 1. Prose and Fiction PROSE: Written language in its ordinary form rather than poetry. Writing or speech in its normal continuous form, without the rhythmic or visual line structure of poetry. FICTION: Literary works of imagination: novels and stories that describe imaginary people and events. WHAT IS NOVEL? “A long story in prose.”, “A genre of literature, it’s a narration of events, incidents and actions having characters, plot, setting, point of view, theme, conflict and style. Character is the who, plot is the what, setting is the where and when, theme is the how of a story. Italian “novella” Means ‘new story’, ‘ new thing’ NOVEL ANOTHER DEFINITION OF NOVEL: “A long narrative in prose dealing with the action of imaginary people.
  • 2. Plot: “A series of events having logical connection among them”. Simple Plot: It simply starts and than comes to an end. A B Organic (Organism) Plot: It’s a type of that starts fresh and ends point to be remember it does not have any backwards going I.e. Flash backs mostly it ends happily. Beginning Middle End
  • 3. Loose Plot: This type of plot mostly has digression: exaggeration or departure from central topic. In literature when author during writing a scene he gets away from his central point and start a new story that is called digression and such plot that has digression called loose plot. Shakespeare and Charles Dickens were notorious for loose plot.