Prose refers to a literary and artistic genre with writing as its creation and aesthetic object, and it is a genre form in literature.
Prose in a broad sense refers to all literary essays except poems, novels and dramas. In addition to discussing lyrical prose, it also includes communication, reportage, essays, memoirs, biographies and other styles. With the development of writing discipline, many styles stand on their own feet and the scope of prose is shrinking day by day.
The narrow sense of prose refers to literary prose, which is a literary style with narrative or lyricism, extensive materials, flexible brushwork, short length and rich love and text. Common prose includes narrative prose, lyric prose and argumentative prose.
To be precise, the form of prose was decided before and after the Vernacular Movement in 1917, and the rule of writing in prose has existed in China since ancient times. When the concept of "prose" first came into being in the Republic of China, it was relative to "verse". Nowadays, however, the concept of prose is relative to poetry, novel and drama.
It can be said that, within the scope of literature, except for the other three styles, everything else is regarded as prose. Specifically, there are: essays, essays, essays, comments, miscellaneous feelings, reportage and so on.
Qu Qiubai, an early leader of the * * * production party and a writer, called Lu Xun's essays "feuilleton", which means "essay" in English. Therefore, short essays can also be included in the category of prose. In addition, letters, diaries, speeches, biographies, etc. also belong to the broad sense of prose.
Extended materials
are characterized by expressing the author's views and feelings and revealing its social significance through the description of some fragments or life events in real life, which can be processed and created on the basis of real people and events.
It doesn't necessarily have a complete story and characters, but focuses on expressing the author's feelings about life, which is flexible in material selection and conception and has strong lyricism. The "I" in prose is usually the author himself. Language is not limited by rhythm, and its expressions are diverse. Narration, discussion, lyricism and description can be integrated or emphasized.
according to the needs of content and theme, we can create a certain artistic conception by describing typical details such as life segments in images, portraying psychology, rendering the environment, setting off the atmosphere, etc., as in novels, and using artistic techniques such as symbols as in poems.
There are various forms of expression of prose, including essays, short comments, sketches, essays, sketches, close-ups, travel notes, newsletters, letters, diaries and memoirs. In a word, prose is short in length, free in form, widely used in materials, flexible in writing and beautiful in language, which can reflect life more quickly.
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