{"id":1394828,"date":"2017-08-03T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1394828"},"modified":"2019-02-11T14:05:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T19:05:02","slug":"quiz-how-purple-is-your-prose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/quiz-how-purple-is-your-prose\/","title":{"rendered":"QUIZ: How Purple Is Your Prose?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/5tipsforwritinggreatcollegeessajennamtvawkwardy_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometimes, we all use purple prose in our writing\u2026 or should I call it &#8220;unnecessarily abstruse and excessively overwrought verbiage&#8221;? Flowery descriptions and overly complicated vocab \u00a0words are tempting to throw around \u00a0in your stories and essays, but sometimes they can distract from your overall message instead of enhancing it. Finish the following sentences to find out if your prose \u00a0is purple or on point.<\/span><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, we all use purple prose in our writing\u2026 or should I call it &#8220;unnecessarily abstruse and excessively overwrought verbiage&#8221;? Flowery descriptions and overly complicated vocab \u00a0words are tempting to throw around \u00a0in your stories   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[278,25016],"tags":[20770,630],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394828"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}