Synesthesia
Pronounced sin-uhs-THEE-zhuh.
Synesthesia: Describing one sense in terms of another - loud colours, sweet sounds, bitter cold light.
Crossing the senses jolts an image out of cliché; a 'blue note' or a 'sharp smell' registers precisely because the wiring is wrong.
Synesthesia examples
"Dante describes reaching a place 'where the sun is silent'."
— Inferno, Dante Alighieri
"Baudelaire's Correspondances imagines perfumes 'sweet as oboes, green as meadows'."
— Correspondances, Charles Baudelaire
"The trumpet line tasted of copper and cheap sugar."
— original example
"A loud shirt."
— common usage
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Score: 0/0Describing one sense in terms of another - loud colours, sweet sounds, bitter cold light.
"Dante describes reaching a place 'where the sun is silent'."
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Synesthesia: common questions
What is synesthesia in literature?
Describing one sense in terms of another - loud colours, sweet sounds, bitter cold light. Crossing the senses jolts an image out of cliché; a 'blue note' or a 'sharp smell' registers precisely because the wiring is wrong.
What is an example of synesthesia?
A classic example is "Dante describes reaching a place 'where the sun is silent'." (Inferno, Dante Alighieri).
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