The literary term is a qualifying adjective that is used to refer to everything that is related to literature or that has some kind of link with it. Literary can be a text as well as a comment, a way of thinking, a feeling, an expression, a situation, etc. All these possibilities have to do with the view that this or that phenomenon has its own characteristics of literature.
Literature is one of the many arts created by the human being that bases its structure on the written word. Literature has existed since time immemorial and is characterized by being extremely varied and rich in terms of forms, structures, issues addressed, etc. As its name says, literature has to do with letters, with the formation of written sounds that can then be read and repeated forever.
When we speak then of something literary, when the quality of literary is applied to something or someone, we refer to everything that has to do with literature and that takes from it elements, expressions, forms, etc. A text is literary when it is literature (for example, a story, a novel, a biography or a poetry), but it can also be literary a way of understanding the world, a thought, an expression spoken orally.
In many cases, the adjective literary can also be applied metaphorically: when there are not necessarily written letters but there are expressions or ways of speaking that sound very similar to the forms used in different literary genres. This is especially true in spaces where literary language is not expected, for example when an experience is told, when a way of thinking is made known, when a feeling is disclosed, etc.
