what is literature?

Answer 1

Literature is man's written and spoken record of all that he is, has been, and longs to be.

Answer 2

proffesion or art of a writer

The body of written works of a language, period, or culture.
Imaginative or creative writing, especially of recognized artistic value: “Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity” (Rebecca West).
The art or occupation of a literary writer.
The body of written work produced by scholars or researchers in a given field: medical literature.
Printed material: collected all the available literature on the subject.
Music. All the compositions of a certain kind or for a specific instrument or ensemble: the symphonic literature.

Answer 3

From Wikipedia: "Literature is literally "acquaintance with letters" as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary (from the Latin littera meaning "an individual written character (letter)"). The term has generally come to identify a collection of texts, which in Western culture are mainly prose, both fiction and non-fiction, drama and poetry. In much, if not all of the world, texts can be oral as well, and include such genres as epic, legend, myth, ballad, other forms of oral poetry, and the folktale."

Answer 4

one of many forms of communication

Answer 5

it is act of reading of poems and if neccesary perform on stage.

Answer 6

i think its books,stories, poems and anything written.

Answer 7

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