Literacy vs Literature - What's the difference?
literacy | literature | Related terms |
the ability to read
understanding of something (ex. computer literacy)
The body of all written works.
The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group or culture.
All the papers, treatises etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.
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Written fiction of a high standard.
Literature is a related term of literacy.
As nouns the difference between literacy and literature
is that literacy is the ability to read while literature is the body of all written works.literacy
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(literacies)Antonyms
* illiteracyDerived terms
* numeracyExternal links
* *literature
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(wikipedia literature) (Literature) (Literature) (Literature)Alternative forms
* literatuer (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)- The obvious question to ask at this point is: ‘Why posit the existence of a set of Thematic Relations (THEME, AGENT, INSTRUMENT, etc.) distinct from constituent structure relations?? The answer given in the relevant literature is that a variety of linguistic phenomena can be accounted for in a more principled way in terms of Thematic Functions than in terms of constituent structure relations.
- However, even “literary” science fiction rarely qualifies as literature , because it treats characters as sets of traits rather than as fully realized human beings with unique life stories. —Adam Cadre, 2008