1) Colourful text 2) Elaborate text 3) Elaborate writing 4) Florid writing 5) Flowery literary style 6) Maudlin writing 7) Melodramatic writing 8) Overly florid writing 9) Overly ornate writing 10) Overwrought writing
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In literary criticism, purple prose is written prose that is so extravagant, ornate, or flowery as to break the flow and draw excessive attention to itself. Purple prose is sensually evocative beyond the requirements of its context. It may also employ certain rhetorical effects such as exaggerated sentiment or pathos in an attempt to manipulate a ...
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Writing that seems overdone or which makes excessive use of imagery, figures of speech, poetic dicti
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writing that calls attention to itself because of its obvious use of certain effects, as exaggerated sentiment or pathos, esp. in an attempt to enlist or manipulate the reader's sympathies.
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