Literature consists of written productions, often restricted to those deemed to have artistic or intellectual value. Its Latin root literatura/litteratura (derived itself from littera, letter or handwriting) was used to refer to all written accounts, but intertwined with the roman concept of cultura: learning or cultivation. Literature often uses language differently than ordinary language (see literariness). Literature can be classified according to whether it is fiction or non-fiction and whether it is poetry or prose; it can be further distinguished according to major forms such as the novel, short story or drama; and works are often categorised according to historical periods or their adherence to certain aesthetic features or expectations (genre). 

Definitions of literature have varied over time; it is a "culturally relative definition". In Western Europe prior to the eighteenth century, literature as a term indicated all books and writing. A more restricted sense of the term emerged during the Romantic period, in which it began to demarcate "imaginative" literature. Contemporary debates over what constitutes literature can be seen as returning to the older, more inclusive notion of what constitutes literature. Cultural studies, for instance, takes as its subject of analysis both popular and minority genres, in addition to canonical works.

What are the answers to this following set of questions:

1. What is the Latin root of Literature?
2. What does that come from?
3. What does that mean?
4. What does literature include?
5. Anything written?
6. Which ones?
7. How many ways can it be categorized?
8. Can those categories be broken down further?
9. in how many ways?
10. Do they separate it by periods?
11. What about features?
12. What are those categories called?
13. When did imaginative works start?
14. What kind of studies deals with literature?
15. What types of genres do they use?
16. What else?
17. Has the meaning of literature changed?
18. When did it mean books and writing?
19. Where?
20. Is the current definition more inclusive?

Numbered answers:
1. literatura or litteratura
2. from littera
3. letter or handwriting
4. written productions
5. no
6. ones that have artistic or intellectual value
7. four
8. yes
9. three
10. yes
11. yes
12. genres
13. during the Romantic period
14. Cultural studies
15. cultural and minority
16. canonical works.
17. yes
18. prior to the eighteenth century
19. In Western Europe
20. yes