狹義的散文是指文藝性散文,它是一種以記敘或抒情為主,取材廣泛、筆法靈活、篇幅短小、情文並茂的文學樣式。散文具有記敘、議論、抒情三種功能,與此相應,散文可分為記敘性散文、抒情性散文和議論性散文三種。
Narrowly literary prose is prose, it is a kind of narrative or lyric-based, drawing broad, deft are short, eloquent literary style. Prose with narrative, comment, lyric three functions, and the corresponding prose can be divided into narrative prose, lyrical prose and expository prose of three.