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Chapter 1 Introduction Aristotle once defined “literature” as “a branch of art which imitates nature” (1997: 63)， which means literature is the basic representative of human emotions，feelings, actions, and thoughts. According to Carter and Long (1991: 3)，it is possible to classify the significance of learning literature into three groups namely “linguistic”，“cultural”，and “individual” ones. Linguistically，literature is created from basic materials of linguistic study (Chapman 1973: 44)， so it can be used as a perfect means to exemplify structures and vocabulary for EFL. In terms of culture, li