What's the difference between fiction and prose? Thank you for your questions.

Poetry, novel, prose and drama are the four traditional styles. Generally speaking, prose is not like a novel. It does not attract readers with fictional storylines, contradictions and conflicts, and created characters. It infects readers by creating rich poetic and rational interests in language and writing. The following interview analyzes the difference between prose and novel from the characteristics of prose: (prose has six characteristics) 1. Strong documentary: novels are relatively larger than essays; 2. Extensive materials: In the field of materials, novels, plays and poems can't be compared with prose. The theme of the novel should have a complete story and vivid characters. 3. Flexibility of form: refers to all literary essays except poems, novels and plays. In addition to discussing lyric prose, it also includes communication, reportage, essays, memoirs, biographies and other styles. Various forms, endless charm. 4. Poetic: True prose is full of poetry, just like apples are full of juice. Prose without poetry is lifeless. Therefore, prose writers strive to seek poetry in life and make their works poetic. Novels, especially realistic novels nowadays, are all retelling trivial matters, which are far less poetic than prose. 5. Beautiful language: prose pays attention to literary talent. Language is flexible and loose, focusing on rhythm. What the novel pays attention to is not the expressive ability of language, but the fascinating plot and the characterization with plain language. 6. Short and pithy: Prose is generally short in length, with few levels and uncomplicated structure, but it also has the characteristics of concise selection of materials and concise and profound conception; Novels are different in terms of story time and plot development, and they are short, medium and long. Except short stories and short stories, they are generally very long, even reaching millions of words. The length of a short essay ranges from tens of thousands of words to hundreds of thousands of words.