What are the common types of structure in novels

The common structural forms of novels are as follows:

(I) Plot Structure

Plot structure takes the development of events as the structural line, and the unfolding of free novels is entirely based on the causal relationship between events, which tend to be manifested as a series of cause-and-effect chains, bearing on the top and starting with the bottom, and interlocked with each other in a close relationship. Ingenious authors, often the plot twisted, reversed, so that the reader produces a sense of strangeness, sense of surprise, but the novel is still built on a fairly complete story structure. The unfolding of the plot structure generally has a beginning, development, climax and end, and some have a prologue and epilogue. According to the clues of the plot, it can be divided into unilinear structure, bilinear structure and trilinear structure. Single-line structure is often a person a line through to the end, the plot is simple, there are twists and turns, twists and turns, lifting and lowering, etc., but no matter how much change, repeated, the plot thread is always a single. The two-line structure is characterized by the plot cross or parallel, generally speaking, more than three plot lines of the structure, the beginner is not easy to grasp.

Plot structure is one of the most basic structural methods of short stories. It has the advantage of action, attraction, and conformity to the aesthetic habits of the general public, but it has its limitations:

①Taking events as the center of the structure, the author's attention stays on the vividness and interest of the storyline itself, which, if not handled well, is easy to weaken the portrayal of the characters.

②The development of character or the author's feelings, the need for adequate space, but the plot structure emphasizes the vertical linkage of events, can not give the development of characters in the horizontal display of greater ground, not to mention the specific time and space from the plot stipulates that the author must be seized by the clues to the development of the plot and push it forward, which restricts the author's creative talent.

3 In order to maintain the integrity of the story, the author often has to cram many substitutes for the plot of the overtures into the work, such overtures tend to lose their splendor and are not conducive to characterization.

④Plot structure will be a kaleidoscope of general very rich life distilled into a complete life process, so that all the elements of the novel are subject to the development of the plot chain of cause and effect, can not have the slightest deviation from this, it is easy to lose the authenticity of the life, richness, to give a person a fabricated, distorted feeling. These limitations are the arrangement of the plot structure of the place to pay special attention to.