Literary notes about levels (AI summary)
The word "levels" is used in literature in a remarkably versatile way, functioning both as a concrete measure and a metaphorical device. In many texts, it denotes physical strata or spatial gradations—a building constructed on two levels ([1]), mountain slopes ascending from twilight to golden light ([2]), or architectural tiers that organize a cityscape ([3]). At the same time, it often signifies abstract layers, as when psychological warfare is described as attacking every level of personality ([4]) or when cultural or moral advancement is linked to rising to higher levels of resistance ([5]). Authors also employ the term to express egalitarian ideas, noting, for instance, that love levels all inequalities ([6]), and to quantify phenomena such as economic performance or public health ([7], [8]). Thus, whether evoking measurable heights or metaphorical depths, "levels" enriches literary language by bridging the tangible and the conceptual ([9], [10]).