Archaisms are kept alive by these ritual and literary uses and by the study of older literature.3 Archaisms in literature and mass media.Archaisms remain in the language, but they are used as stylistic devices to express solemnity.Archaisms can also be put to good use when they are carefully chosen to create irony or humor.Archaisms are most frequently encountered in poetry, law, and ritual writing and speech.Archaisms are frequently misunderstood, leading to changes in usage.Archaisms also reflect an inner aspect of people consciousness.Archaic elements that only occur in certain fixed expressions are not considered to be archaisms.Usage of archaism in literature I emphasized in the third chapter of my course work.Deliberate usage of archaisms.