Word: archaism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...undead. In both language and imagery, Rice skillfully immerses her reader in the world of vampirism, a realm of drawing rooms and bed chambers, sumptuous meals, perfumed sheets, unabashed seduction and lascivious blood thirst. The diction itself is formal almost to the point of stiffness; its linguistic archaism suits the nature of its time period and its subject, effectively transporting readers to the centers of both...