prose fiction
Invented narrative writing
Prose fiction is narrative literature written in ordinary language rather than verse—novels, short stories, novellas.
The term distinguishes imaginative storytelling from poetry on one hand and nonfiction on the other: The course covers prose fiction from the 19th century.
Fiction written as prose, as opposed to verse narratives like epic poems.
- protagonistStory's central figure
- first personGrammatical self-reference perspective
- third personGrammatical category for others
- point of viewOne's particular outlook
- narrative voiceWho speaks the story
plot · plot twist · novella · locale · fantasy · narrative arc · satire · foil · short story · epistolary · unreliable narrator · character development · allegory · climax · flashback · coming of age · bestseller · book club
- literaturebooks, book, poetry, stories, novels
- literary studiescriticism, literary history, modernism, literary movements, literary themes
- early literatureessay, novel, pamphlet, early novels, treatise
- literary themesheroism, hero's journey, ennui, social realism, morals
- Renaissance LiteratureShakespeare, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, The Prince, Don Quixote
- 18th-century literaturegothic novel, heroic couplet, mock-heroic, neoclassicism, picaresque
prose fictionpoetry
Metrical literary composition
verse · epic poetry · lyric poetry · blank verse · free verse
prose fictionnonfiction
Literature about real events
journalism · reportage · biography · history · memoir
prose fictionargumentative writing
Text advocating a position
analytical writing · essays · treatises · reference works · textbooks