Question

Read the following passage from Zora Neale Hurston's "How It Feels to be Colored Me":

The great blobs of purple and red emotion have not touched him. He has only heard what I felt. He is far away and I see him but dimly across the ocean and the continent that have fallen between us.
What type of literary device is being used here?
A. Synesthesia
B. Understatement
C. Paradox
D. Conceit

Answer 1

A. Synesthesia

Step-by-step explanation:

Synesthesia is a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. You can incorporate the use of synesthesia as a rhetorical device in your own writing. If you can blend two of the five senses—sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell—together in a phrase or a sentence, then you'll be able to describe common forms of synesthetic perceptions. Synesthesia in literature or poetry is a literary device that writers can use to create interest in the work.