Entertainment / Literature / Purple Prose: Writing that seems overdone or which makes excessive use of imagery, figures of speech, poetic diction, and polysyllabication. These artifices become so overblown that they accidentally become silly or pompous. See also purple patch.
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Prose Noun Synonyms: (expository) writing, text, language
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Entertainment / Literature / Purple Patch: A section of purple prose or writing that is too ornate or florid for the surrounding plain material, which in turn looks too tranquil or dull by the incongruity of the startling purple patch. The col MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Purple Prose: Writing that seems overdone or which makes excessive use of imagery, figures of speech, poetic diction, and polysyllabication. These artifices become so overblown that they accidentally become silly o MORE
Lifestyle / Poetry / Purple Passage: Lines that stand out from a longer poem because of their vivid diction or figures of speech, and perhaps because of the agitated flush that rises in the face of someone trying to recite it. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Prose: Any material that is not written in a regular meter like poetry. Many modern genres such as short stories, novels, letters, essays, and treatises are typically written in prose. MORE
Lifestyle / Poetry / Prose Poem: Continuous, non-end-stopped writing that has other traits of poetry and is, from its context, associated with poems. MORE