Literature is a faithful reproduction of life executed in an artistic pattern. It ha the power to set our imaginations soaring through a myriad lives and worlds. It can add something to what we already know about ourselves and the rest of humanity.
It is written material such as poetry, novels, essays, etc., esp. works of imagination characterized by excellence of style and expression and by themes of general or enduring interest
It is an ordinary way of expression of ideas written in sentences or in paragraph form.
It is a brief imaginative narrative unfolding a single predominantly
incident and a single chief character.
A long work of prose fiction. The novel as a more realistic literary genre, is sometimes distinguished in academic literary criticism from the romance; but this distinction is not maintained by all literary critics.
Type of drama which aims primarily to amuse and which ends happily.