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Types of Prose
By: LJ Ashley C. Diga-monGroup 2- Arts
PROSEFrom Latin prosa orato-rio which means “straight-forward discourse”
Written or spoken lan-guage in its ordinary form, without metrical structure
PROSE Commonly used in news-papers, magazines, ency-clopedia, broadcasting, film, history, philosophy, and many other forms of com-munication
TYPES
A. FictionB. Non- fiction
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Division &
• Is partly or totally imagina- tively contrived.
• Authors can also choose to include factual information in a made-up story.
• Often referred to as narrative prose
A. Fiction
Types of Fiction Historical Fiction: The
story takes the reader back to a particular time period where they learn about the every-day life of a person or group of persons.
Realistic Fiction: usually presents a problem to be examined that could be from anybody’s life.
Science Fiction: a type of modern fantasy. It ex-plores scientific fact.
Mystery: usually a crime has been committed, the reader wants to know the “killer”
Metafiction: self- con-sciously and systemically draws attention to its status as an artifact
Romance: a chivalric theme or relates improba-ble adven-tures of idealized characters
Short-Story: can be read in a single sitting Organised into a plot
Novel: an extended work of prose fiction
Tells a story of considerable length
Shows characters and their actions in everyday life.
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B. Non- fiction• “Informational” material.• Provides a factual information• Based on facts rather than
imagination
Types of Non-fiction Biographies: a true account
of a person’s life written, com-posed, or produced by another.
Autobiographies: the biogra-phy of a person written by that person.
Essay: a composition with mode-rate length, usually ex-pository in nature. There are several types of essay. Types of Essay
Formal Essay – deals with serious and important topics
Informal Essay – deals with any sub- ject, even the ordinary
Critical Essay – seeks to analyze or evaluate a literary work
Travelogue – informs others of vica- rious experiences in a given place and time.
What’s the dif -ference be-tween types of prose and po-
etry?
Prose vs. PoetryNearly all writing shares the goal of communicating a message to an audience, but how that mes-sage is communicated can differ greatly. The divisions between poetry and prose aren’t clear-cut, but here are some generally ac-cepted differences:
Prose• Most everyday
writing is in prose
• The language of prose is typi-cally straight-forward without much decora-tion.
• Reserved for expressing something spe- cial in an artistic way.
• More expressive or decorated
Poetry
Prose• Ideas are
contained in sentences that are ar-ranged into paragraphs.
• Ideas are contained in lines that may or may not be sen-tences. Lines are ar-ranged in stanzas
Poetry
Prose• There are no
line breaks. • Sentences run
to the right margin.
• Uses line breaks to follow a for-matted rhythm or to em- phasize an idea
• Lines can run extremely long or be as short as one word or letter
Poetry
Prose
• The first word of each sentence is capital-ized.
• Traditionally, the first letter of every line is capitalized, but many modern poets choose not to fol-low this rule strictly.
Poetry
“I believe that the right combination of words strung together, like computer binary code, can unlock the secrets to the
Universe”A. Bentley
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