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Types of Prose

By: LJ Ashley C. Diga-monGroup 2- Arts

PROSE

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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