What's the difference between novels, fairy tales and essays?

Novel is a major style in the four-part division of literary genre. It is a literary genre that reflects life and expresses ideas by shaping characters, telling stories and describing the environment.

Fairy tale is a literary genre, which is mainly aimed at children and has a strong fantasy color. It shapes images and reflects life through rich imagination, fantasy, exaggeration and symbols. Its language is popular and vivid, and its stories are often bizarre and interesting.

Prose (prose; Prose is a kind of literary genre, also known as poetry, novel and drama. Prose that does not pay attention to rhythm, including essays, essays and travel notes. It is the freest style, without paying attention to phonemes, parallelism and any restrictions. It is also the earliest style of writing in China. Usually, an article has one or more central ideas, which are expressed by lyric, narrative and logical means.