What is prose and what are its characteristics?

Prose 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 a narrative literary genre, expressing the author's true feelings and flexible writing style.

Features:

1, distracted:

"Form and dispersion" not only refers to a wide range of subjects and diverse writing methods, but also refers to a free and eclectic structure; "Spiritual gathering" refers not only to the central concentration, but also to the clues that run through the whole text.

Prose writers and writers are only superficial phenomena. Fundamentally speaking, they write about emotional experiences. Emotional experience is an "inseparable god", and people and things are dispensable, more or less "scattered" "shape".

"Form and dispersion" mainly means that prose is widely used and free, and is not limited by time and space; Expression techniques are not limited to one pattern: it can describe the development of events, describe characters, convey feelings with things, and make comments. The author can freely adjust and change according to the needs of the content.

"Distraction" mainly comes from the intention of prose, that is, the theme to be expressed in prose must be clear and concentrated, no matter how extensive the content of prose is and how flexible the expression is, it serves to better express the theme.

2. Deep artistic conception:

Pay attention to the expression of the author's life feelings, lyrical and sincere.

With the help of imagination and association, the author writes from the superficial to the deep, from the real to the imaginary, in turn, which can integrate feelings into the scenery, send feelings to help each other, express the author's true feelings, realize the unity of things and me, show more profound thoughts and make readers understand more profound truths.

3. Beautiful language:

The so-called elegance means that the language of prose is fresh, bright and beautiful (also beautiful), lively and full of musical sense, and the writing style is like a trickle, tinkling, telling, sincere and sincere.

The so-called conciseness means that the language of prose is concise, natural and fluent. A few words can describe vivid images, outline the scenes of characters and show far-reaching artistic conception. Prose tries to write the scenery as if it were in front of you and the feelings as refreshing.

Extended data:

Prose classification:

1, narrative prose

Narrative prose, or narrative prose, is mainly narrative. The narrative plot is incomplete, but it is very concentrated, and the feelings in the narrative permeate between the lines.

It focuses on reflecting the essence of things from the development and changes of narrative characters and events, and selects themes from one angle to express the author's thoughts and feelings with factors such as time, place, characters and events. According to the different emphases of this kind of prose, it can be divided into note prose and writer prose.

1) Focus on notes.

Taking the development of the event as a clue, it emphasizes the narrative nature of the event. It can be a story with a beginning and an end, such as "Peanut" by Xu Dishan, or it can be several fragments, such as "From Baicaoyuan to Santan Yinyue" by Lu Xun.

The author's sincere feelings are poured into the narrative, which is the most remarkable difference from the novel narrative.

2) Emphasis on remembering people

The whole article revolves around the characters. It often grasps the character characteristics of the characters, makes a rough outline, and emphasizes the basic temperament, personality and mental outlook of the characters, such as Mr. Fujino in Lu Xun's works. Whether the characters are true or not is the difference between them and novels.

2. Lyric prose

Lyric prose, or landscape prose, refers to prose that describes scenery and expresses the author's feelings, passions and wishes for real life.

Pay attention to express the author's thoughts and feelings, express the author's thoughts and feelings. This kind of prose narrates and describes specific things, but usually it doesn't run through the whole story. Its outstanding feature is strong lyricism.

It is either straightforward or touching, full of poetry and painting, even if it describes natural scenery, it also gives profound social content and thoughts and feelings.

Excellent lyric prose has sincere feelings and vivid language, and often uses symbols and analogies to visualize ideas, which has strong artistic appeal.

For example, Mao Dun's Praise of Poplar, Wei Wei's Farewell, Zhu Ziqing's Moonlight on the Lotus Pond and Bing Xin's Praise of Cherry Blossoms.

Mainly to describe the scenery. Most of these articles express their feelings while describing the scenery, or express their feelings through the scenery, or indulge in the scenery, grasp the characteristics of the scenery, use the method of changing the scenery in the order of spatial transformation, and take the observed changes as the context of the full text.

Vivid scenery description can not only explain the background and render the atmosphere, but also set off the thoughts and feelings of the characters and better express the theme. For example, Liu's Three Gorges of the Yangtze River.

3. Philosophical prose

Philosophy is the understanding of feelings, the spark of thoughts, the condensation of thoughts and the crystallization of wisdom. It runs through ancient and modern times, across China and foreign countries, embraces the world, penetrates the society of life, and resides in thousands of landscapes in the short and flashing field of thinking. ?

Smart authors are good at grasping the flash of philosophy and writing rich and thought-provoking beautiful articles in the form of pen and ink. Reciting such beautiful prose often can naturally be enlightened, edified, baptized and sublimated in a subtle way. This internalization is undoubtedly great.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia prose