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What makes Purple Prose?



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Mon Aug 25, 2008 2:19 pm
Tabithalillian says...



purple prose is a curse of mine.
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Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:31 pm
alwaysawriter says...



I'm not a big fan of purple prose. I'd never heard of it til just now but I can already think of some examples: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Tortorus description; I couldn't even get past the first few pages.
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Tue Sep 02, 2008 5:16 pm
Matt Bellamy says...



Tolkien springs to mind...
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