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Synesthesia

Synesthesia. What is Synesthesia [sin- es -thee- zia ]?. It is a neurological condition It is also a literary device. What is Synesthesia ? (The neurological condition).

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Synesthesia

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  1. Synesthesia

  2. What is Synesthesia [sin-es-thee-zia]? • It is a neurological condition • It is also a literary device

  3. What is Synesthesia? (The neurological condition) • Synesthesia is a condition in which one sense (for example, hearing) is simultaneously perceived as if by one or more additional senses such as sight.

  4. What is Synesthesia? (The neurological condition • Another form of synesthesia joins objects such as letters, shapes, numbers or people's names with a sensory perception such as smell, color or flavor.

  5. What is Synesthesia? (The neurological condition Who has it: • Usually • Women • Left-handed • Neurologically normal • In the same family • Synesthetes sometimes report frequent experiences of déjà vu , clairvoyance, or precognitive dreams

  6. What is Synesthesia? (figure of speech) • Synesthesiais also a figure of speech; a blending or confusion of different kinds of sense impressions in which one type of sensation is referred to in terms more appropriate to another.

  7. What is Synesthesia? (figure of speech) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIEiOrxhtNQ • Common synesthetic expressions include such terms as • Loud or warm colors • Smooth sounds • Incorporating synesthesia into your writing can produce some eye-popping, mind blowing great poetry, so add this to your “bag of tricks.”

  8. Before you start feeling BLUE Here is something else to do!

  9. What does Happiness. . . • Feel like • Sound like • Smell like • Look like • Taste like

  10. How about. . . • Work • Fear • Play Sound like Look like Smell like Taste like Feel like

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