What is a novel?

Nowadays, novels are generally divided into martial arts, Xian Xia, fix the truth, rebirth, fantasy, romance, science fiction, campus, online games, cities, military affairs, history, suspense, reasoning, doomsday, Resident Evil, fantasy, chemistry and crossing. Novel is a major style in the four-part division of literary genre. It is a literary genre that reflects life and expresses ideas by portraying characters, describing backgrounds, telling stories and describing environments. It is a literary work with complete layout, development and theme. Rich imagination and ups and downs of content and plot also reflect people's helplessness to real life and their helplessness to a better life!

Novels are sometimes very touching and readable. Good novels make people never tire of reading and are touching. But now there are many bad novels that people can't understand. In short, you must know how to choose between reading novels. The book has its own Yan Ruyu, and the book has its own golden house.

Structurally, it is divided into four parts: beginning, development, climax and ending.

Second, the relevant knowledge:

1, definition

Novel: one of the four major literary styles (prose, novel, poetry and drama), it is a literary genre that focuses on shaping characters and reflects social life through the narrative of complete stories and the description of specific environments. It is a literary work with complete layout, development and theme. Three elements of a novel: characters, plot and environment.

2. Value

The value essence of the novel takes time as the sequence and one or several characters as the main line, which reflects the process of the emergence, development and disappearance of the value relations (political relations, economic relations and cultural relations) of various roles in social life in a very detailed and comprehensive way. Show the interaction of various value relationships in a very detailed and comprehensive way.

3. Capacity

Compared with other literary styles, the novel has a large capacity, which can show the characters' character and destiny in detail, show the intricate contradictions and conflicts, and describe the social life environment in which the characters live. The advantage of novels is that they can provide a complete and broad social life.

4. Plot

The novel mainly shows the character and performance center through stories. The story comes from life, but after sorting, refining and arranging, it is more concentrated, complete and representative than what happened in real life.

Three, three elements:

The three elements of the novel: the description of the characters, plot and environment. Or people (main elements), stories, and environment (for short).

1, 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: profile description of appearance, language, movements, manners and psychology (also called detail description) includes; Reflect characters through other people's words and deeds (also called profile contrast).

2. Story

Storytelling (Storytelling refers to the whole process of the development and evolution of the events described in the work, and the structure of the story plot: [prologue-beginning-development-climax-ending-(epilogue)].

3. Description of environment

Environmental description refers to the description of people's activity environment and things background. 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 people's activities. The description of social environment refers to the description of the specific background, place, atmosphere and interpersonal relationship of people's activities.

Fourth, the chart: