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PROSE NARRATIVE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - It generally has a single major plot and often a group of relatively minor plots. Its magnitude permits a great variety of characters and great plot complications.
        
        There is an ample development of milieu, characterization tends to be elaborated and to proceed through extensive description, scene-setting or contextualization.
        
        The plot may be comic, tragic, romantic, or satiric
        
        The story may begin at any point; ab ovo, in medias res, or in ultimas res.
        
        They may present an open-ending or closed-ending as well.
        
        Novels may be ussualy published in isolation in the form of a book.
  - - - The narrative is conveyed entirely by an exchange of letters.
    - - It is characterized as the fictional attempt to give the effect of realism.
    - - It focuses on the develpment of the protagonist's mind and character in the passage from the childhood into maturity.
    - - It emphasizes the influence of the social and economic conditions of an era on shaping characters and determining events; often it also embodies an implicit or explicit thesis recommending political and social reform.
    - - It makes use of events and personages from the historical past and make them crucial for the central characters and narrative.
      - Subgenres: documentary fiction, nonfiction novel, literature of fact
    - - It emphasizes the setting, speech, and social structure and customs of a particular locality as important conditions affecting the temperament of the characters and thei ways of thinking, feeling, and interacting.
    - - The writers interwave a sharply etched realism in representing ordinary events and descriptive details together with fantastic and dreamlike elements, as well as with materials derived from myth and fairy tales.
    - - Its plot involves a love relationship between the protagonists of the story.
  - - - The focus is on the protagonist's motives for what he or she does, and on how the protagonist as a person will turn out. This kind of novel is also called psychological novel.
    - - The focus is on a problem, on the novel's events. The interest is in what the protagonist will do next and on how the story will turn out.
- - - - It develops plots of small magnitude and has a limited number of characters.
        
        It depends on a strong degree of focus and unity to carry the reader from the opening lines to the ending. Not many details are given about the setting, characterization is no much elaborated, and is likely to proceed through implication, complications are kept down, and the denouement is cleared up quickly.
        
        The plot may be comic, tragic, romantic, or satiric
        
        The story begins close to, or even on the verge of, the climax. Most of them begin in medias res.
        
        Many modern short stories are characerised by an open-ending.
        
        Polytextual publication mode: short stories are not usually published separately, but rather appear among other texts in magazines, newspaper, anthologies or collections.
  - - - The focus is on the course and outcome of the events.
        
        A story of incident is normally associated with a plot of resolution.
    - - The focus is on the state of mind and motivation, or on the psychological and moral qualities, of the protagonists. It is loosely-plotted and no events take place on the story.
        
        A story of character is normally associated with a plot of revelation.