Question

According to the dictionary entry below, which word is a synonym for novel? novel (´nä-vəl), adj., [Middle English, Anglo-French, Latin] 1. new and not like anything formerly known. 2. original—Syn see new.—n., 3. invented prose narrative. 4. the literary genre that is made up of novels. invented anything new formerly

Answer 1

4, it explains the definition very well. i do not think it is to broud either

Answer 2

The correct answer is option 3.

A NOVEL is a literary work in which a story is developed, generally, in a narrative style. A novel is a literary genre; it is a relatively long piece of writing in which characters and events are fictional. Hence, INVENTED PROSE NARRATIVE is a synonym for the word novel.