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Novel: A novel is a long fiction almost always concentrating on character and incident and usually contains a plot.

Novella:  Novella is applied to a story some what longer than a short story but not long enough to be considered a novel.

Short Stories: This is a small prose fiction which concentrates on a few characters or often one single character which lacks a complicated plot and leisurely description.

Elements of Prose Fiction

Narrative Techniques: This is simply the technique in having narrative skills and style of writing used by the author

Point of View:  The character from whose perspective the audience experiences the story.

Characterization:  This is often listed as one of the fundamental elements of fiction.

Plot:  This is the rendering and ordering of the events and actions of a story.

Style:  This is how a story is written.

Theme: This is conceptual distillation of the story.

Literary Devices

Imagery: Descriptive language that evokes sensory experience.

Symbol: This is using an object  or action that means something more than it literal meaning.

Irony: Saying one thing and meaning another.

Satire: A literary term used to ridicule or make fun of human vuce or weakness, often with the intent of correcting.

Structural Devices

Stream of Consciousness:  Used to describe the narrative method where novelist describe the unspoken thoughts and feelings of their characters without resorting to objectives, description or conventional dialogue.

Interior Monologue:  A type of stream of consciousness in which the author depicts the interior thoughts of a single individual in the same order these thoughts occur inside that character's head.

Flashback:  An action that interrupts to show an event that happened at an earlier time which is necessary to better understanding.

Foreshadowing: This is the use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later literature.

Time Frame:

Motif:  A recurrent thematic element in an artistic or literary work.

Juxtaposition:  When one theme or idea or person or whatever is paralleled to another.

The eight (8) types of fiction are:

1) Novel

2) Novella

3) Short Story

4) Short-short story

5) Vignette

6) Prose poem

7) Anti story

8) Novelette