Prose Flashcards
Nonfictional
Based on fact (biographies/essays)
Fictional prose
Wholly /partly imagined (novels, fairytales) 
Heroic prose
Legends, tall, tales, recited aloud (King Arthur)
Prose poetry
Combines the two. Not written in verse, but contains poetic attributes
Historical fiction
Set in particular historical periods, including prehistoric and mythological.
Picaresque novels
 Rogue protagonist
Gothic novel
18th century enlightenment, rationalism, featuring Hoare, mystery, superstition, madness, supernatural elements, and revenge. 
Psychological novels
Psychological motivation of characters
Novels of manners
Behaviors and society.
Fictional stories that observe, explore, and analyze the social behaviors of a specific time in place. Include descriptions of a society with defined behavior codes; language that uses standardized, and personal formulas; an inhibition of emotional expression, as contrasted with a strong emotions expressed in romantic or sentimental novels . 
Western world, sentimental novels
Originated in the movement of romanticism. Novels that emphasize the emotion aspect of love. The Victorian era is rejection of emotionalism cause the term “sentimental“ to have undesirable connotations.
Epistolary novels 
Expressed in letters 
Novels that are told in the form of the letters, written by their characters rather than in a typical narrative form.
Pastoral novels
Post pastor a.k.a. garden of Eden.
Novels lyrically idealize country life as idyllic and utopian, a kin to the garden of Eden.
Bildungsroman
Building a coming of age
German for “education novel”. Also used in English to describe “apprenticeship” novels, focusing on coming of age stories, including you, struggles and searches for things, such as identity, spiritual, understanding, or the meaning in life.
Roman a clef
Clef is a key of reference
French for “novel with a key,” refers to books that require a real life, frame of reference, or key, for full comprehension. Disguised truth too dangerous for authors to state directly. 
Narrative
A narrator tells a story
Any composition of tells a story
Biographies
Books written about another person’s life.
Myths
Myths = mythology
Stories for mythology, existing most ancient cultures, and continue to influence modern cultures.
Fables
Fables have morals
Short, didactic stories typically feature imaginary characters or talking animals.
“The tortoise and the hare”
Fairytales
Fairytales = kids
Stories that involve fictional characters or realistic characters, with fantastical traits in abilities, often and happily in to pick the victory of good over evil, far-fetched and whimsical.
Folktales
Spoke by folks “hey folks”
Stories that have withstood time and are usually popular in a particular region or culture.
Legends
Legend of Zelda – one character
Stories that typically focus on one character and highlight their victory over a particular enemy or obstacle.
Short story
Fictional narrative that is shorter than an novel.
