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ARCHAISM
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...word or phrase ( a lexical archaism ). Literary archaism occurs when a style is modelled...a desired effect. Lexical archaisms are a common feature of such...registers as religion and law. Archaism is often a consequence of purism...
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ANACHRONISM
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...a matter of awareness, context, and expectation: for example, the archaism wight (person, man) may be appropriate at a seminar on the Elizabethan...anyone who knows (or senses) that its time is out of joint. Compare ARCHAISM .
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-ISM
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...plagiarism , prescriptivism , racism , sexism , symbolism . (2) Forming linguistic and stylistic terms: anachronism , aphorism , archaism , barbarism , classicism , colloquialism , dysphemism , euphemism initialism , malapropism , neologism , regionalism , solecism...
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APPALACHIAN ENGLISH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...and west. Because of the relative isolation in which it has developed and the continuance of forms regarded elsewhere as archaisms, Appalachian English has been regarded (popularly but incorrectly) as a kind of Elizabethan or Shakespearian English...
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Tate, (John Orley) Allen
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...His metaphysical poetry is distinguished by a neoclassical polish and satire, achieving sharp contrasts through use of archaisms verging on the baroque. He described his technique as “gradually circling round the subject, threatening it and...
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Aesthetic movement
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...during the 1880s, heavily influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites , Ruskin , and Pater , in which the adoption of sentimental archaism as the ideal of beauty was carried to extravagant lengths and often accompanied by affectation of speech and manner and eccentricity...
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poetic diction
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...x2018;the language of the age is never the language of poetry’. Wordsworth's attack on neo-classicism , archaisms, abstractions, personifications, etc., was both forceful and revolutionary, although his views were later repudiated...
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François de Malherbe
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...the 16th century, including Pierre de Ronsard, had begun to avoid hiatus and to temper the humanists' use of neologisms, archaisms, erudition, and mythology. Malherbe himself, even in his most mature poems, was not so circumspect as he expected others...
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Welsh literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...period) eulogized the heroes of the North, but it is lyrical rather than epic. From c.1150 the bardic system, with its archaisms, its prescribed themes and meters, and its aim of "exquisiteness," flowered; of the several levels of bardic verse...
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SCOTT, Sir Walter
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...consistent orthographies. His English vocabulary is ornamented not only with words taken from Scots but with a large number of ARCHAISMS from Spenser and SHAKESPEARE , particularly in such fields as warfare, weaponry, horsemanship, and medieval architecture...
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