What is the narrative style of a novel?

Artistic features: fiction, baking, rendering, exaggeration, irony, contrast, lyricism, argument, narration, description, etc.

Novel:

1, a literary genre centered on the portrayal of characters and reflecting social life through a complete storyline and environmental description.

2. Character, plot and setting are the three elements of a novel. Plot generally includes four parts: beginning, development, climax and ending, and some parts include prologue and epilogue. The setting includes natural and social environment.

3, according to the length and capacity of the novel can be divided into long, middle, short and micro-novel (novel). According to the content of the performance can be divided into myth, science fiction, public crime, legend, martial arts, romance, homoeroticism, officialdom and so on. According to the system can be divided into chapter book novels, diary novels, epistolary novels, autobiographical novels. According to the language form can be divided into literary novels and vernacular novels.

4. The novel, together with poetry, prose and drama, is known as the "four great literary genres".

5. The novel portrays characters in the following ways: psychological description, action description, language description, appearance description, and demeanor description, and at the same time, the novel is a kind of writing method.

Expanded Information

The foundation of the novel has been accumulated and deposited for more than 800 years through the pre-Qin, Han, Wei, Jin, and North and South Dynasties, and the novel was formally formed when history entered the Tang Dynasty. Trace the foundation of more than eight hundred years, mainly in four aspects:

One is the fables. Such as "Mengzi", "Zhuangzi", "Han Feizi", "Strategies of the Warring States", and other books have a lot of character character distinctive fables, they have been with the meaning of the novel.

The second is historical biography. Such as "Zuo Zhuan", "Strategies of the Warring States", "Historical Records", "Three Kingdoms", describing the character, narrating the storyline, or provide material for the novel, or for the novel to accumulate experience in narrative.

Third is the literati's notes. This is especially obvious in the Wei, Jin, and North and South Dynasties, where most of the literati's notes record anecdotes, tales, and materials.

Fourth, folk entertainment and leisure. All dynasties have teahouse restaurant resident speaker, storyteller, based on the book of words, every day the story a small talk (fiction), to attract guests to come back every day to listen to the book, hoping to ensure that business is booming.

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