What is a novel?

Novel refers to a literary genre with narrative things as its creative technique and typicality as its aesthetic feature. It centers on shaping characters and tells the whole story. Novel is a literary genre that focuses on portraying characters and reflects social life through complete stories and environmental descriptions.

Three elements of novel

Novel elements refer to the main factors that constitute the literary form of novels and show their basic characteristics. In the novel theory, the factors that constitute the image of the novel are mainly divided into two categories: first, the content factors of the novel, including the material, theme, theme, characters, environment and plot of the novel.

The first is the formal elements of the novel, including the language, structure, genre and expression of the novel. In general, people call the characters, plot and environment that can best express the uniqueness of a novel "the three elements of a novel".

Character image: The core of character image is the character's ideological character, and the angle of character description includes positive description and side description. Positive description includes appearance, language, movement, expression and psychological description; Profile description (also called profile contrast) refers to the reflection of others' words and deeds on the characters.

Story plot: refers to the whole process of the development and evolution of the events described in the works. The structure of the story: (prologue)-beginning-development-climax-ending-(epilogue) is used to express the character and the theme of the work.

Environmental description: refers to the description of the environment of people's activities and the background of things happening. Environmental description is divided into natural environment and social environment. The description of natural environment refers to the description of time, place, season, climate, flowers, birds, insects and fish of human activities; The description of social environment refers to the description of the specific background, place, atmosphere and interpersonal relationship of people's activities.