Ornate, flowery writing characterized by an excess of sentiment or pathos
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Purple Prose: The Good(?) and the Bad | Creative Writing Forums ...  Jun 22, 2009 ... There is probably a better term for the sweet excess of Nabokov's work, but if ... obvious use of certain effects, as exaggerated sentiment or pathos, esp. in an ... Ornate, flowery speech can also be referred to as purple prose.
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Jeopary Questions page 2209 - "A" MEN - TriviaBistro.com  COLORFUL PHRASES: Ornate, flowery writing characterized by an excess of sentiment or pathos  POETRY: In "Ode on a Grecian Urn" he asked, "What men or...
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What makes Purple Prose?  Young Writers Society  Purple prose is writing that is so extravagant and flowery and ... written in prose so overly extravagant, ornate or flowery as to break the ... It also refers to writing that employs certain rhetorical effects such as exaggerated sentiment or pathos in an .... Purple prose isn't an excess of good, it's just plain excess.
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Ask me a trivia question - Discussion on Topix  Jan 15, 2010 ... #192247 Jan 15, 2010. Alex Trebek wrote: ` Ornate, flowery writing characterized by an excess of sentiment or pathos. purple prose. Judged: 2.
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Words - Ray Sahelian, M.D.  Purple prose Ornate, flowery writing characterized by an excess of sentiment or pathos. Reflexive verb. Reynard is a literary cycle of allegorical French, Dutch,...
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Poe, ''Conqueror Worm'' (1843) -- American ... - Dennis G. Jerz  Sep 1, 2005 ... It writhesit writhes! ... The Conqueror Worm is a difficult poem to understand. ... Do not forget that "the curtain, a funeral pall" death has already won, and ... From the second stanza, first line- "Mimes, in the form of God on high...
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Romanticism - The Calverton School  The Englishmen William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge together ... period poets and prose writers tended to share the assumption that all literature was ... Now no longer would poets write in "dead" forms; now they had discovered a ... I have said that [Romantic] poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings;...
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Men & letters  sentiments as the suggestion that life was death, and that what was called .... poem, * had become a name for ever roaming witha .... Alas ! for this gray shadow, once aman,. So glorious in his beauty, and thy choice, ...... clergyman ought to hold, that the way to be a gentleman ...... Mr, Fitzgerald says, Tristram Shandy is.
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Literary Terms - StudyGuide.org  1. allegory: story or poem in which the characters, setting, and events stand ... 2. alliteration: repetition of the same sound in a sequence of words, usually ... 8. foreshadowing: use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in ... Gothic writing often features dark and gloomy places and horrifying, supernatural events.
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J! Archive - Show #3315, aired 1999-01-22  This state of feeling estranged from one's world sounds like a FOX TV drama .... It can mean to have a strong offensive smell, or to cause something, like havoc...
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Rev. Percival Stockdale on Alexander Pope - English Poetry 1579 ...  Pope" Lectures on the truly eminent English Poets (1807) 1:469-543. .... He now wrote his Pastorals, which were shown to the poets, and criticks of that time; ... frequent, that the writer evidently means rather to show his learning than his wit. ..... There is, however, a sufficient foundation to show, that the ruling passion is not a...
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The Divine Comedy (La Divina Commedia) is an epic poem written ...  Find out more one our page: http://circleme.com/items/la-divina-commedia ...... When I was done I felt like crying and laughing at the same time. ..... from BOOK RIOT ..... because although I love books about journeys, I have found this 'masterpiece' boring and not easy to read due to his eternal prose describing everything in...
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Reader, Beware: Images of Victorian Women and Books  Visually, Nimue has completely triumphed over Merlin, who is portrayed as limp, ... of some of the main types of constructions in "high" culture and fine arts (works by .... In Victorian art, one of the explanations lies in how books served as markers and ... (7) Reading was also a source of pleasure, although too much emotional...
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Jabberwocky - Alice-in-Wonderland.net  The poem makes a lot of use of 'portmanteaus': a word that is made up of other words. ... Carroll called it Stanza of Anglo-Saxon Poetry. ... Mimsy: flimsy and miserable; Borogove: a thin shabby-looking bird with its ... It is attributed to Carroll and is defined as a combination of 'gallop' and ... Such is Human Perversity..
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Page 1 This exotic Victorian "Still Life-by the great British ...  I know his face is hid l. Under the ... sweetI'm sure that you will love themThey make me think beside, .... or two myself, but I couldn't seem to make it go, somehow (141). ... itself, usually topped by an urn, was borrowed from Greek and Etrus- ..... cumstances attending a death and any special last words or actions were.
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Transmuting - RUcore - Rutgers University  Wordsworth's theory of poetry derives from his Essays Upon Epitaphs which ..... Epitaphs coheres in a double epitaph defined by marks inscribed on the ...... The Sonnet then is a small poem, in which some lonely feeling is developed. ...... of Coleridge's Christabel, and Love is Enough, which displays a variety of hypnotic.
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Wordsworth and Coleridge: Emotion, Imagination and Complexity  During the 18th century the catchphrase of literature and art was reason. ... These two points form the basis for Wordsworth's explanation of the process of writing ... the poet can reconstruct the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" the .... and modern critical practice has not yet fully distilled the potential meaning to be...
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Replying to a Message - Wilmott  Jan 16, 2007 ... An epigraph he used on one story says, "our hearts though stout and brave, still, like muffled drums are beating" Only Brian got Edgar Allan Poe...
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read more (329.9 KB) - COPLAC  grandson) muses, Biographers . . . have been by turn delighted at the rich pickings and exasperated by the contradictions of Oscar Wilde's life, ultimately trying to ... Wilde and his characters only begin to understand themselves when they allow ..... Ugliness was the one reality, and thus that the very vileness of thief and...
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Edgar Allan Poe - Misunderstood | Academic About poetry ...  Some claim that Edgar Allan Poe's writings are too excessively morose for the ... of his writing and personality, and appreciate him for the poetic genius he truly is. ... it states, How they clang and crash and roar!/ What a horror they outpour. ... His reference to the bells being at the mercy of the fire provides readers with a...