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What makes literature?

What are the standards that make something literature?

Update:

I mean, what deeper meaning does it have? What makes something so special that it is defined as literature?

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  • nick
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago
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    Usually time. If something withstands the test of time and remains a respected piece of writing, then it can usually be considered literature.

  • 1 decade ago

    A poem or fictional story.

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