although processed according to the general, typical features of this style, puts it in a somewhat special position in relation to other speech styles. Moreover, the style of artistic speech allows the use of such elements of the language that are unacceptable at this stage in the development of the literary norm of the language. Thus, in the language of works of art by modern English writers, one can find linguistic facts that go beyond the norms of the literary language, for example, jargon, vulgarism, dialectism, etc. True, these elements in the style of artistic speech appear in a processed, typified, selected form. They are not used here in their, so to speak, natural form; such use of non-
literary words would litter the language and would not contribute to the enrichment and development of the literary norm of the language,
The style of artistic speech, sometimes called poetic language, is primarily characterized by figurativeness. The image created by various linguistic means causes a sensory perception of reality and, thereby, contributes to the creation of the desired effect and reaction to what has been said. In this regard, it is interesting to cite the following statement by G. E. Lessing:
“The purpose of art is to save us from abstraction in the realm of beauty, to make it easier for us to concentrate our attention. Everything that we abstract in the realm of nature or wish to abstract in our mind from an object or from a group of different objects, in relation to time or space, art really abstracts; it presents us with an object or a combination of objects in such clarity and coherence as only allow the possibility of sensation, which should be caused by them.