The four major styles of literature: poetry, prose, novels, and drama.
Distinction:
Poetry:
1. Concept: It uses highly concise language to vividly express the author's rich thoughts and emotions and reflect social life in a concentrated way , and a literary genre with a certain rhythm and rhyme.
2. Classification:
In terms of expression, it can be divided into lyric poetry and narrative poetry.
In terms of poetry genre, it is divided into two categories: ancient poetry and new poetry. Ancient poetry can be divided into modern poetry and ancient poetry.
Modern poetry is divided into metrical poetry, quatrains, words, and music.
New poetry includes free verse (vernacular poetry produced since the May Fourth Movement), prose poetry (the content of lyric poems expressed in prose form), and folk songs (poems circulated among the people and created collectively).
Prose:
1. Concept:
Prose is a free and flexible style of writing about what you have seen, heard and felt.
2. Classification:
Prose is divided into narrative prose, lyrical prose, and scene prose.
3. The ways of revealing the center of prose include expressing one's ambitions through supporting objects, expressing one's emotions through scenes, etc.
4. Clues:
There is often a clue that strings the materials together into an organic whole. You can use people, things, feelings, scenery, time, place, etc. as clues.
Novel:
1. Concept: The novel focuses on character creation and reflects social life through story plot narration and environmental description.
2. Elements: The novel must have three elements: vivid characters, a complete storyline and the specific environment of the characters' activities.
3. Plot: The plot of a novel generally includes four parts: beginning, development, climax, and ending; environmental description includes social environment and natural environment; the characters and plots in the novel are fictitious.
Drama:
1. Concept: refers to the general term for stage performance art that achieves narrative purposes through language, movement, dance, music, puppets, etc. The literary concept of drama refers to the script created for dramatic performance, that is, the script.
2. Form: There are many forms of drama performance, common ones include drama, opera, dance drama, musical, puppet show, etc. It is a comprehensive art in which actors play roles and perform storylines in public on the stage.
3. Drama is another ancient literary form that mainly expresses the author's thoughts and feelings through dialogue between different characters. Drama can be performed on the stage or read.
Extended information:
Literature also includes other genres:
Historical literature, notes, parallel prose, memoirs, letters, travel notes, short essays, ancient prose, Eight-legged essays, essays, sketches, practical essays, calligraphy, poetry, and poetry.
Traditional poetry is a literary work with rhythm. It expresses some strong emotions through imagination and lyricism. Poetry is the oldest literary form. China is one of the most developed countries in poetry in the world.
From China's earliest poetry collection "The Book of Songs", the earliest long lyric poem "Li Sao", the Yuefu of the Han Dynasty, the metrical poetry of the Tang and Song Dynasties, and the rise of Ci in the late Tang Dynasty, Yuan Opera and since the May Fourth Movement The new poems and folk songs of the past dynasties constitute an unparalleled and huge tradition of Chinese poetry.
In contrast, Western narrative poetry developed relatively late, but when combined with drama, great achievements have been made, such as "Homer's Epic", "Dante's Divine Comedy", etc.
The word "novel" was first recorded in "Zhuangzi · Foreign Things": "To decorate novels as county magistrates, they are far away from Dada."
In the modern sense of China The novels originated from fables in pre-Qin prose, passed through the notes of the late Han and Six Dynasties, and matured into the Tang legends and Song scripts, and then spread to the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the form of the four great novels (later "The Plum in the Golden Vase" was replaced by "A Dream of Red Mansions"). Instead, they became novels represented by the "Four Great Classics") and short stories represented by Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.
Western novels:
Western novels are called "fiction" and are called prose epics. Novels are connected to myths and legends as a later literary form. Due to its huge capacity, it profoundly and comprehensively reflects reality and people's thoughts, and has become one of the mainstream literary forms in modern times.
Baidu Encyclopedia--Four major styles of literature