1.Common literary words
Common literary words are chiefly used in writing and polished speech. Literary units stand in opposition to colloquial units. The following synonyms illustrate the relations that exist between the neutral, literary and colloquial words in the English language.
Colloquial Neutral Literary
Kid Child Infant
Daddy Father Parent
Chap Fellow Associate
Teenager Boy(girl) Youth(maiden)
These synonyms are not only stylistic but ideographic as well, there is slight semantic difference between the words.
Colloquial words are always more emotionally coloured than literary ones.The neutral words have no degree of emotiveness.
The neutral vocabulary may be viewed as the invariant of the Standard English vocabulary. Synonyms of neutral words, both colloquial and literary, have a great degree of concreteness.
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