Writing Devices – Rhetoric Synaesthesia Examples: 1) She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight. - Raymond Chandler, smell cf. sight 2) His words cut the air like a dagger - Oscar Wilde, sound cf. touch 3) Thy voice is like wine to me - Oscar Wilde, sound cf. taste 4) The silence that dwells in the forest is not so black - Oscar Wilde, sound cf. sight 5) My nostrils see her breath burn like a bush. - Dylan Thomas, smell cf. sight 6) The hyacinth purple, and white, and blue, Which flung from its bells a sweet peal anew Of music - Percy Bysshe Shelley, sight cf. sound 7) Thrust me back thither where the sun is silent. - Dante, sight cf. sound 8) Skittles: taste the rainbow, taste cf. sight 9) While silver voices wake the waters o'er 'Mid asphodels on Anthemusia's leas I hear the Odyssey and Iliad rise - Henry Jerome Stockard, sound cf. sight 10) In some melodious plot, Of beechen green, Singest of summer in full throated ease - John Keats, touch cf. sound 11) For no one else has ever sailed past this place in his black ship until he has listened to the honey-sweet voice that issues from our lips - Homer, sound cf. taste 12) To have it round us, --- and her silver voice Is the rich music of a summer bird, Heard in the still night, with its passionate cadence. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, sound cf. sight 13) The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun, and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music - F. Scott Fitzgerald, sound cf. sight