Novel is a genre of literary creation that is juxtaposed with prose, poetry and drama in the sequence of language, literature and art.

The broad concept of drama includes not only stage performance, but also literary scripts for performance; In language, literature and art, "drama" mainly refers to the literary script of drama, which is a narrow concept of drama.

By the way, these four classifications are not completely scientific, but how to classify them has always been controversial. This is just the usual classification.