AGENDA:
1. Seven greatest back stabs in history
2. Continue reading Act 3.1
3. Unleashing the Dogs of War!
HW: Find an example of synaesthesia in Antony's soliloquy for class tomorrow; Literary Circle tomorrow; moving recitations to Wednesday
SYNAESTHESIA: A
rhetorical trope involving shifts in imagery It involves taking one
type of sensory input (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) and co-mingling
it with another separate sense in an impossible way. In the resulting
figure of speech, we end up talking about how a color sounds, or how a
smell looks. When we say a musician hits a "blue note" while playing a
sad song, we engage in synaesthesia. When we talk about a certain shade
of color as a "cool green," we mix tactile or thermal imagery with
visual imagery the same way. When we talk about a "heavy silence," we
also use synaesthesia.
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