WHAT IS PROSE ??

The term 'prose' is derived from the Latin word "prorsus", which means 'straight on', 'continuous' or "forward". It is, consequently, a piece of writing which goes straight on and continues to the very end. The prose genre of literature is distinguished by its use of a greater amount of words and sentence structures, greater variety of rhythm as well as its closeness to the patterns of ordinary speech. Generally, prose is made up of fictive and non-fictive works

Types of Prose:

There are two types of prose namely The Non-Fictive and the fictive, fictive, from the word fiction means that such idea or what has been put together was fabricated and daydream rather than being real, the non-fictive stresses more on true life event and situations. Without futher ado let's look at each categories and see what falls under it.

The fictive category

1. The Biography

What is Biography??

Biography refers to the non-fictive presentation of the life history of a person in which some effort is made to interpret facts relating to the person's experience(s) in order to render a unified view in respect of the character, mind, attitude, and personality of the subject in question. Examples include Chief Sam Mbakwe: A Great Son of Achievement and Courage (1991), authored by Okechukwu Okebedi; Chinua Achebe: A Biography (1991), written by Ezenwa-Obacto; Awo As a Philosopher (2005), written by Moses Akinmakinde; and Biko (1979), authored by Omald Woods.

2. The Autobiography

WHAT IS AUTOBIOGRAPHY??

This is also a non-fictive prose. It is the story of someone's life by the person who lived it. Because the autobiography is written while the subject is still alive, it is not possible to cover all the person's life. Examples are Wole Soyinka's The Man Died (1972) or his Ake: Years of Childhood (1981), Barrack Obama...

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