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  2. Purple prose - Wikipedia

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    In literary criticism, purple prose is overly ornate prose text that may disrupt a narrative flow by drawing undesirable attention to its own extravagant style of writing, thereby diminishing the appreciation of the prose overall. [1] Purple prose is characterized by the excessive use of adjectives, adverbs, and metaphors.

  3. Color symbolism - Wikipedia

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    Color symbolism in art, literature, and anthropology is the use of color as a symbol in various cultures and in storytelling.There is great diversity in the use of colors and their associations between cultures [1] and even within the same culture in different time periods. [2]

  4. The Wide Window - Wikipedia

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    Book the Third: The Wide Window is the third novel of the children's book series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. In this novel, the Baudelaire orphans live with their aunt Josephine, who is seemingly scared of everything. The book was published on February 25, 2000 by HarperCollins and illustrated by Brett Helquist.

  5. Purple - Wikipedia

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    [53] [56] [57] In optics, violet is a spectral color; it refers to the color of any different single wavelength of light on the short wavelength end of the visible spectrum, between approximately 380 and 450 nanometers, [58] whereas purple is the color of various combinations of red, blue, and violet light, [50] [55] some of which humans ...

  6. Midnight (Wilson novel) - Wikipedia

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    The book is about a 13-year-old girl called Violet and her older 15-year-old brother, Will. Violet is a dreamy girl who is described as having long, thick hair and being small and skinny for her age. She is always away in her own world, filled with fairies designed by her favorite author, Casper Dream.

  7. The Slippery Slope - Wikipedia

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    Book the Tenth: The Slippery Slope is the tenth novel in the children's novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. It was illustrated by Brett Helquist and published on September 23, 2003. In the novel, Violet and Klaus Baudelaire make their way up the Mortmain Mountains to rescue their sister Sunny from Count Olaf and his ...

  8. How 'Bridgerton' Season 3 changes the book, starting ... - AOL

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    The books picks up with Penelope age 28 and Colin, 33. A ‘dating lessons’ trope In "Romancing Mister Bridgerton," Colin returns from a trip to Cyprus and rekindles his friendship with Penelope.

  9. Murasaki Shikibu - Wikipedia

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    "Murasaki", an additional name possibly derived from the color violet associated with wisteria, the meaning of the word fuji (an element of her clan name), may have been bestowed on her at court in reference to the name she herself had given to the main female character in "Genji". Michinaga mentions the names of several ladies-in-waiting in a ...