Five genres of modern literature: narrative, expository, argumentative, novel, poetry, etc.
1. Narrative
Narrative is a stylistic form that focuses on remembering people, narrating, describing scenes and objects, and writing about the experiences of characters and the development and changes of things. The six elements of narrative are people, time, place, the cause, process and result of the event. The order of narratives includes direct narration, flashback, interpolation, supplementary narration and sub-narration (flat narration).
2. Explanatory essay
Explanatory essay is an article genre with explanation as its main expression. Explaining the objective things or the abstract things will help people to have a scientific understanding of the shape, structure, nature, types, causes, functions and relationships of things or the concepts, characteristics, sources, evolution, similarities and differences of things. The center of the exposition is distinct and prominent, and the article is scientific, organized and vivid.
3. Argumentative essay
Argumentative essay, also called argumentative essay, is a style of analyzing things, discussing things, expressing opinions and putting forward opinions. The author determines whether his viewpoint is right or wrong, and establishes or denies a certain proposition by putting facts, reasoning, distinguishing right from wrong and giving examples. Argumentative writing should be clear-cut, well-argued, concise in language, reasonable in argument and strict in logic.
4. Fiction
Fiction is a literary genre that focuses on portraying characters and reflects social life through complete storylines and environmental descriptions. Character, plot and environment are the three elements of a novel. Plots generally include four parts: beginning, development, climax and ending, and some include prologue and ending. Environment includes natural environment and social environment.
novels can be divided into novels, novellas, short stories and mini-novels (short stories) according to their length and capacity. According to the content of performance, it can be divided into myth, Xian Xia, martial arts, science fiction, suspense, ancient biography, contemporary, fantasy novel and so on. According to the system, it can be divided into chapter novels, diary novels, epistolary novels and autobiographical novels. According to the language form, it can be divided into classical Chinese novels and vernacular novels.
5. Poetry
Poetry is a literary genre that expresses feelings and aspirations. It is a literary genre with a certain rhythm and rhythm, which vividly expresses the author's rich emotions in highly concise language and reflects social life intensively. In ancient Han dynasty, those who were unhappy were called poems, while those who were happy were called songs. In modern times, they are generally called poems.