What kind of article is called prose?

Prose is a narrative literary genre, which expresses the author's true feelings and flexible writing style. It refers to a literary genre with writing as its creation and aesthetic object, and it is a genre form in literature.

It is a 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.

In ancient China literature, prose is opposite to verse and parallel prose, and it does not pursue rhyme and sentence order. This is prose in a broad sense. In China's modern literature, prose refers to a literary genre as famous as poetry, novel and drama. This is prose in a narrow sense.

According to Ci Hai, prose is the general name of prose articles (including historical classics) that have not rhymed and rearranged since the Six Dynasties in China. Then it refers to all literary genres except poetry.

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Prose is characterized by:

① Form is scattered but spirit is not scattered: the so-called line is scattered, that is, there is no strict restriction on the format of prose, and spirit is not scattered, that is, prose must have a unified center and theme. "Form and dispersion" mainly means that prose is widely used and free, and is not limited by time and space; "God will not leave" mainly comes from the idea of prose, that is, the theme to be expressed in prose must be clear and concentrated.

Beautiful and concise language: the language of prose is simple and easy to understand, natural and fluent, but it can still describe profound characters and life scenes. Prose is known as "beautiful prose", which not only has spiritual views and beautiful artistic conception, but also has fresh, meaningful and unpretentious literary talent.

(3) There is a strong artistic conception: although there is no fixed format, prose generally runs through the whole text with a clue and explains the details, revealing profound meanings from simple and beautiful words. Pay attention to the expression of the author's life feelings, lyrical and sincere.

Reference materials? Baidu encyclopedia-prose