What is literature?

In the widest sense, literature is just anything written.

Recipe books, Telephone directories,

 Guidebooks to museums…

Literature is the art that uses language as a medium.

Novels, Short stories, Plays, Poems; 

Essays, (description, narration, exposition, and argumentation)

Why should we learn literature?

Literature helps us understand our inner self

To amuse ourselves and others

Philosophy, history and society , aesthetics, human nature,  an art drawing orders out of the life

It is about relation, emotion and perception

More efficient communication with foreigners

Better understanding of western cultural

And better English 

New perspective to your life and the world

A happier life 

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Literature Makes People THINK.

The History of English