Elements of Style describes purple prose as "hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating." In short, it's ornate, contrived and breaks the narrative.
There's plenty of advice on how to avoid it, but my question is geared towards how one can identify it.
Since writing is so subjective, what can seem like purple prose to one person can be seen as something vivid and beautiful to someone else.
Where is the line between the two? Can it even be determined? And if how?
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