Prose: focus on structure, form is scattered but spirit is not scattered. Beautiful sentences. It makes people feel relaxed and happy.
Novel: Pay attention to details, the sentences are easy to understand, and every nerve of people follows the author's ideas.
2. Different characteristics
Prose: Pay attention to the expression of the author's life feelings, with strong lyricism and sincere feelings.
Novels: Novels mainly show the characters' personalities and performance centers through stories. The story comes from life, but after sorting, refining and arranging, it is more concentrated and representative than real life.
Extended data:
The three elements of the novel: vivid characters, complete stories and specific environmental descriptions.
1, character image
The core of a character is thought and character, and the angle of character description includes positive description and side description. The previous description includes appearance, language, action, psychology, etc. Profile description usually reflects the relationship between characters and others or things, also called profile contrast.
2. Story
The storyline refers to the whole process of the development and evolution of the events described in the work, and the general structure of the storyline: beginning, development, climax and ending.
3. Description of environment
Environmental description refers to the description of people's activity environment and things background. A good novel can always make people feel personally and empathize.
Baidu Encyclopedia _ Novel (literary genre)