DEFINATION OF LITERATURE

Literature literally "acquaintance with letters" (from Latin littera letter) as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary , or work of art, which in Western culture are mainly,prose, both fiction and non-fiction,drama and poetry. In much of, if not all, the world texts can be oral as well and include such genres as epic,legend, myth , ballad, plus other forms of oral poetry, and folktale .