speech, but when used in colloquial speech or in informal situations, they may create a comical effect. These words are mostly of foreign origin and have polymorphemic structure, e. g. solitude, fascination, cordial, paternal, divergent, commence, assist, comprise, endeavour, exclude, heterogeneous, miscellaneous, hereby, thereby, herewith, etc. wherein, Literary (bookish) words are not stylistically homogeneous. Besides general-literary (bookish) words, e. g. etc., we may single out various harmony, calamity, alacrity, specific subgroups, namely: 1) terms or scientific words such as, e g. etc.; 2) poetic words renaissance, genocide, teletype, and archaisms such as, e. g. whilom aught – ‘formerly’, – ere albeit fare ‘anything’, – ‘before’, – ‘although’, – ‘walk’, etc.; 3) barbarisms and foreign tarry nay – ‘remain’, – ‘no’; words, such as, e. g., clever or bon mot – ‘a witty saying’, etc.; 4) neologisms such as, e. g. apropos, faux pas, bouquet, teledish dish-shaped aerial for receiving satellite television (“a transmissions”), roam-a-phone (“a portable telephone”), etc. graviphoton (“a hypothetical particle”), Terms are words or nominal groups which convey specialized concepts used in science, technology, art, etc., e. g. gerontology, phoneme, radar, knee joint, common etc. denominator, periodic table, still life, choreography, Poetic words are stylistically marked; they form a lexico-stylistic paradigm. In the 17th-18th centuries they were widely used in poetry as synonyms of neutral words. In modern poetry such a vocabulary barely exists. Poetic words are diverse; they include: a) archaic words (commix b) archaic forms (vale c) historic mix); valley); – – words (argosy d) poetic words proper large merchant ship); – (anarch, brine). Their main function is to mark the text in which they are used as poetic, thus distinguishing it from non-fiction texts.
speech, but when used in colloquial speech or in informal situations, they may create a comical effect. These words are mostly of foreign origin and have polymorphemic structure, e. g. solitude, fascination, cordial, paternal, divergent, commence, assist, comprise, endeavour, exclude, heterogeneous, miscellaneous, hereby, thereby, herewith, wherein, etc. Literary (bookish) words are not stylistically homogeneous. Besides general-literary (bookish) words, e. g. harmony, calamity, alacrity, etc., we may single out various specific subgroups, namely: 1) terms or scientific words such as, e g. renaissance, genocide, teletype, etc.; 2) poetic words and archaisms such as, e. g. whilom – ‘formerly’, aught – ‘anything’, ere – ‘before’, albeit – ‘although’, fare – ‘walk’, tarry – ‘remain’, nay – ‘no’; etc.; 3) barbarisms and foreign words, such as, e. g., bon mot – ‘a clever or witty saying’, apropos, faux pas, bouquet, etc.; 4) neologisms such as, e. g. teledish (“a dish-shaped aerial for receiving satellite television transmissions”), roam-a-phone (“a portable telephone”), graviphoton (“a hypothetical particle”), etc. Terms are words or nominal groups which convey specialized concepts used in science, technology, art, etc., e. g. gerontology, phoneme, radar, knee joint, common denominator, periodic table, still life, choreography, etc. Poetic words are stylistically marked; they form a lexico-stylistic paradigm. In the 17th-18th centuries they were widely used in poetry as synonyms of neutral words. In modern poetry such a vocabulary barely exists. Poetic words are diverse; they include: a) archaic words (commix – mix); b) archaic forms (vale – valley); c) historic words (argosy – large merchant ship); d) poetic words proper (anarch, brine). Their main function is to mark the text in which they are used as poetic, thus distinguishing it from non-fiction texts.