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. In your own words, define literature. Literature is the communication of thoughts, ideas, and feelings through the written word. It is a transaction of a very personal message between one individual, the writer, and any number of others, thereader.Literature allows a person to step back in time and learn about life on Earth from the ones who walked before us. We can gather a better understanding of culture and have a greater appreciation of them. We learn through the ways history is recorded, in the forms of manuscripts and through speech itself.