Besides prose and novels, what other literary genres are there?

Generally speaking, in addition to prose and novels, there is also an important classification of contemporary literary genres, which is poetry. As literary genres, novels, poems and essays have the same status and are not subordinate to each other. If subdivided, the three major genres contain some sub-categories, among which prose is more prominent than novels and poems. Although some sub-categories are classified into the category of prose, they have almost formed a new style in writing skills and content expression, but they have not yet reached the status of keeping pace with these three categories.

These literary genres belonging to "prose" mainly include the following two types:

First, essays. Essays are a way of writing to criticize the shortcomings of the times and express the author's views. Essay writing has had several peaks in history, and now with the vigorous development of network literature and culture, essay is full of vitality again. In view of social phenomena in various fields, the main characters are essays.

Second, reportage. Reportage is a literary genre that truly reflects social life events and people's activities. On the basis of facts, moderate literary rhetoric description is allowed, which is the essential difference between reportage and news reporting. In addition to being timely and accurate, the most basic requirement of news reporting is seeking truth from facts, which belongs to non-fiction category. Reportage can be described in details and atmosphere.

In addition to these two categories, travel notes, reading notes, preface, postscript, book reviews and so on. It is also a literary genre with its own writing characteristics and belongs to the category of prose.

With the development of literature and writing, there are many literary genres with unclear boundaries, such as prose poems. Whether prose poetry belongs to prose or poetry has been inconclusive in the literary world. Moreover, there is an interesting phenomenon in classification. Prose poetry is included in both prose and poetry. Prose periodicals and magazines have "prose poems" columns; Similarly, poetry and literature periodicals also have a position of "prose poetry".

Prose poetry has obvious poetic attributes in rhythm. Modern poetry does not pay attention to the rhyme of each sentence, which is an important way to reflect the literary genre of poetry. Prose poetry almost completely meets this requirement. However, poetry needs branches to present a certain physical beauty, and prose poetry is indistinguishable. From this perspective, it is enough to classify prose poetry as prose.

In addition, there are some "golden sentences" with few words, which do not belong to poetry. These sentences are combined, and each sentence is a new line. On the surface, it looks like a poem, but in fact it is not a poem in a strict sense. If it is prose, it is too short. It is not appropriate to call it a bibliography. The emergence of this literary genre is related to people's fragmented reading habits, which is also a trend of literary development. It may be defined as a new style in the future.