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S YNESTHESIA
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W HAT IS S YNESTHESIA [ SIN - ES - THEE - ZIA ]? It is a neurological condition It is also a literary device
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W HAT IS S YNESTHESIA ? (T HE 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.
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W HAT IS S YNESTHESIA ? (T HE 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.
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W HAT IS S YNESTHESIA ? (T HE 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
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W HAT IS S YNESTHESIA ? ( FIGURE OF SPEECH ) Synesthesia is 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.
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W HAT IS S YNESTHESIA ? ( 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. ”
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Before you start feeling Here is something else to do!
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W HAT DOES H APPINESS... Feel like Sound like Smell like Look like Taste like
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H OW ABOUT... Work Fear Play Feel like Look like Taste like Sound like Smell like
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