【正确答案】正确答案：Literature is closely related to language. Generally speaking, it is marked by careful use of language, such as creative metaphors, elegant syntax, and so on. It reaches to human beings mostly via language. It could be seen as a language in use. The existence of literature owes a lot to language. The language used in literature is quite often different from language used in other fields, such as everyday use. In linguistics, the term "genre" is used to refer not only to types of literary works but also to any identifiable type of discourse, whether literary or not. Therefore, literature could be viewed as a particular range of genres or discourse types; that is, as a particular subset of the repertory of genres, existing in a given speech community. For example, written literature is discourse that may be read at a far distance in time a place from its origin. More generally speaking, literary discourse has many other general linguistic characteristics, such as certain kinds of phonological, syntactic, and semantic phenomena, occuring with much greater frequency in literature than in other kinds of discourse. What's more, studying the language of literature text as language can enhance our appreciation of the different systems of language organization, because the literary texts often reveal the nature of the language in which they are written.