This paper aims to look into various ways to utilize literary works in teaching communicative competence in the first language. The goal of language education, i.e. communicative competence, has been expanded to encompass discourse competence and socio-pragmatic competence in addition to the traditionally acknowledged linguistic competence. Linguistic competence refers to the structural knowledge at the sentential level. Discourse competence is a higher level of knowledge which construes and constructs coherent and cohesive texts. Sociolinguistic and pragmatic competence modulates the use of language appropriate for the socio-pragmatic context. This paper shows that literature can be a very useful tool to achieve the goal of communicative language teaching: it helps the readers enrich their vocabulary and acquire the sociocultural background of the linguistic community. This paper aims to look into various ways to utilize literary works in teaching communicative competence in the first language.