Synaesthesia (rhetorical device)

For literary depictions of the neurological condition, see Synesthesia in literature.

Synaesthesia is a rhetorical device or figure of speech where one sense is described in terms of another.[1] This may often take the form of a simile.[2] One can distinguish the literary joining of terms derived from the vocabularies of sensory domains from synaesthesia as a neuropsychological phenomenon.[3]

  1. ^ Forsyth, Mark. The Elements of Eloquence. p. 32.
  2. ^ Anderson, Earl R. (1998). A Grammar of Iconism. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. p. 199.
  3. ^ Tsur, Reuven (Spring 2007). "Issues in Literary Synaesthesia". Style. 41 (1): 30–52.