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Prose
Prose
Fiction
FOCUS: What is prose?
• Discuss with your groups:
– What is prose?
– Mention and explain the elements of
fiction!
– Mention and explain the kinds of
characters in fiction!
PROSE
DEFINITION
KINDS OF PROSE
•PROSE is the ordinary .
form of written language.
oFiction
oNon Fiction
KINDS OF PROSE
FICTION
NON FICTION
Examples:
•Short Stories Examples:
• Legend Report
•Fairy Tales Letters Personal Narrative
•Folk Tales Memoirs
Memoirs
•Novels
Letter
•Short Stories
•Fables Article
•Myth Journal
•Etc. Biographies
Elements of prose fiction
1. Plot
2. Character and characterization
3. Setting
4. Point of View
5. Theme
6. Symbol
7. Style and tone
Plot
the action or sequence of events in a
story. It is based on a key conflict.
There are five basic parts of plot
(Freytag’s Pyramid)
• Exposition- the first part of the story. The author
establishes the setting, introduces characters, gives
additional background information.
Universal Symbols:
water = purity
black clouds = evil approaching
Style
In fiction writing, the writer’s style is created
by the choice of literary devices that are
used to create the story, such as diction,
syntax/sentence structure, imagery,
symbolism, allegory, personification, and
other figurative language.
Examples of Style in Literature
He was completely integrated now and he
took a good long look at everything. Then he
looked up at the sky. There were big white
clouds in it. He touched the palm of his hand
against the pine needles where he lay and he
touched the bark of the pine trunk that he
lay behind. (For Whom the Bell Tolls by
Ernest Hemingway)
“And the trees all died. They were orange trees. I don’t know
why they died, they just died. Something wrong with the soil
possibly or maybe the stuff we got from the nursery wasn’t
the best. We complained about it. So we’ve got thirty kids
there, each kid had his or her own little tree to plant and
we’ve got these thirty dead trees. All these kids looking at
these little brown sticks, it was depressing.”