I'm writing a review for a book at the moment and the author sometimes uses phrases like "his hair was as golden as the sun" and "his eyes as blue as the ocean".
I would just like to know how I can describe this kind of language. I looked it up in my dictionary and online too, but the only thing I could find was "flowery language". Can I really write it like that, because the expression seems a bit "strange" to me.
In German we would say "blumige Ausdrucksweise" or "blumige Sprache", but I don't know if directly translating this into "flowery language" is correct. Can somebody maybe help me, please?!