A Complete Collection of General Knowledge of the Style of Fictions

2026-01-22 15:40

1. ** definition **: A novel is a literary genre that focuses on the creation of characters and reflects social life through a complete story and specific environmental descriptions. 2. ** Three Elements ** - Character Image: The main element of a novel. It is created through a variety of description methods, such as appearance description, action description, language description, psychological description, expression description, etc. From the perspective of description, it could be divided into positive description (direct description) and side description (indirect description). - ** Storyline **: It is the entire process of the development and evolution of life events described in the novel. It can generally be divided into four parts: the beginning, the development, the climax, and the ending. Some novels even have prologue and ending. The beginning is the first thing in the conflict; the development is the evolution process of the conflict from unfolding to intensifying; the climax is the peak of the conflict, the most intense and sharp stage of the character's mental struggle; the ending is the resolution of the conflict, the completion of the character's personality development, the final result of the event, and the full display of the theme. - ** Description of the environment **: It includes the description of the natural environment (also known as scenery description, mainly describing the time, place, season, climate, flowers, birds, insects, fish, etc. of the characters 'activities) and the description of the social environment (mainly describing the specific environment, place, atmosphere, and interpersonal relationships of the characters' activities). Its main function is to explain the time and place of the story, provide specific background for the characters 'activities, and exaggerate the atmosphere. 3. ** Category ** - ** According to length **: It can be divided into long, medium-length, and short. - ** Different by content **: It can be divided into social novels, mythological novels, historical novels, scientific novels, detective novels, etc. In China, the development of the novel had gone through different stages, such as the strange novels of the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties (such as "Sou Shen Ji"), the gossip novels of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the legendary novels of the Tang and Song Dynasties, the novels of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the novels of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the modern novels of the May Fourth Movement. Different stages had different characteristics and representative works. - ** From the perspective of style-related novels in the teaching materials **: There are different types of novels such as prose (poetic) novels, realistic novels, critical realism novels, chapter novels, classical novels, autobiographies, magical realism novels,"Lotus Lake" novels,"Yam Egg" novels, satirical novels, etc. Different types of novels have different related topics and reading points. Read more exciting novels for free