The National Testing Service-India has defined and categorized the common assessment components for assessing Indian language and literature. It could not find that these evaluation components of literature borrowed and observed from Indian grammars like meter, rhetoric, and others. It appears that the defining elements may not be sufficient and appropriate for understanding, teaching, and evaluating the Indian literature (especially traditional literature such as epic, minor literature and drama). The contemporary common characteristics of literature may be applicable to all contemporary literature in the context of literary works. But these characteristics cannot be fully applied to Indian literatures. So, the new assessment components may be defined with contemporary common characteristics of literature and the inclusion of the poetic qualities of Indian traditional grammars. Because those grammars were written for Indian language literatures. Then the assessment components may vary according to the literary genres.