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purple prose
In literary criticism, purple prose is prose text that is so extravagant, ornate, or flowery as to break the flow and draw excessive attention to itself.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.wordsmith.org/words/purple_prose.html )〕 Purple prose is characterized by the extensive use of adjectives, adverbs, zombie nouns, and metaphors. When it is limited to certain passages, they may be termed purple patches or purple passages, standing out from the rest of the work.
Purple prose is criticised often enough for it to take, in novelist Paul West's words, "a certain amount of sass to speak up for prose that's rich, succulent and full of novelty. Purple is (seen as ) immoral, undemocratic and insincere; at best artsy, at worst the exterminating angel of depravity."
==Origins==
The term ''purple prose'' is derived from a reference by the Roman poet Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, 65–8 BC) who wrote in his ''Ars Poetica'' (lines 14–21):〔Horace (18 BC). Ars Poetica. Lines 14–21.〕
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