Literary
Terms
Novel
A Novel is a long narrative work of fiction
with some realism. It is often in prose form and is published as a single book.
The word ‘novel’ has been derived from the Italian word ‘novella’ which means
“new”. Similar to a short story, a novel has some features like a
representation of characters, dialogues, setting, plot, climax, conflict, and
resolution.
Types of Novels
There
are many types of novels. They include mysteries, thrillers, suspense,
detective, science fiction, romantic, historical, realist or even postmodern.
Examples:
Animal
Farm by
George Orwell
The
Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Great
Expectations by Charles Dickens
Frankenstein
by
Mary Shelley
Tess
of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
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