stylistic differentiation of the english vocabulary guide to stylistic differentiation of the english vocabulary

Proceeding from the heterogeneity of the vocabulary it is divided in the present manual into neutral — the bul¬kiest—literary and colloquial strata. * I. LITERARY STRATUM OF WORDS I. The first subdivision of literary words to come under discussion are archaisms. Their main types illustrated by the given examples are: archaisms proper, i. e., antiquated or obsolete wrords replaced by new ones (e. g., anon—at once; haply—perhaps; befall—happen, etc.); historical words, i. e., words denoting such concepts and phenomena that have gone out of use in modern times (i. e., knight, spear, lance, etc.); poetic words, i. e., archaic words with the fixed sphere of usage in poetry and elevated prose and with the function of imbuing the work of art with^a lofty poetic colouring (e. g., woe—sorrow; hapless—unlucky; staunch—firm, harken—hear, etc.); morphological (or par¬tial) archaisms, i. e., archaic forms of otherwise non-archaic words (e. g., speaketh, cometh, wrougth, brethren, etc.).