The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to literature:
Literature is any collection of written work. The term is also used more narrowly for writings considered an art form, especially novels, plays, and poems. It includes both print and digital writing. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include oral literature, much of which has been transcribed. Literature is a method of recording, preserving, and transmitting knowledge and entertainment. It can also have a social, psychological, spiritual, or political role.
Literature can be described as all of the following:
Communication– activity of conveying information. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast distances in time and space.
Written communication (writing) – representation of language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or symbols (known as a writing system).
Subdivision of culture– shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution, organization, or group.
One of the arts– imaginative, creative, or nonscientific branch of knowledge, especially as studied academically.
Limerick– a kind of a witty, humorous, or nonsense poem, especially one in five-line anapestic or amphibrachicmeter with a strict rhyme scheme (aabba), which is sometimes obscene with humorous intent.
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