prose fiction
prose fiction
prose fiction noun [uncountable] books and stories about imaginary people and events, in ordinary written language rather than poetry:
• The prize is awarded annually for a volume of prose fiction.
novel noun [countable] a long written story in which the characters and events are usually imaginary:
• Butler has written several historical novels under the pen-name of Jenny Melville.
• John Braine's first novel, 'Room at the Top', was set in his native Yorkshire.
novelist noun [countable]:
• Charles Dickens was one of the greatest 19th-century novelists.
short story noun [countable] a short written story about imaginary situations and characters:
• a short story by Balzac called "Sarrasine"
novella noun [countable] an imaginary story that is shorter than a novel but longer than a short story:
• The opera is based on a novella by Dostoevsky.
narrator noun [countable] the person who tells the story in a book or a play:
• In the second part of the novel, the narrator's voice is that of a detached, quasi-scientific observer.
• The omniscient narrator (=the writer who knows everything that all the characters know) knows the answer, but doesn't tell us till the very end.
first-person narration noun [uncountable] a way of telling a story in which the writer tells it as though he or she is one of the people in the story. The writer apparently knows only what that person knows and cannot tell the reader anything about what the other characters are thinking:
• In the course of writing the book, he switches from first-person narration - the murderer's story - to third-person narration.