Another vocab word...

Finally, I can use my second vocab word! Dustin Long is very good at using this tactic: synaesthesia. It means "a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated." Or, in other words, stimulating more than one sense at a time, in our case through literature. A wonderful example comes from Dustin Long's novel Icelander: "She smelled smoke before she saw it, a buttery blend, brimming visibly, volubly, from Mr. Wible's short and wide pipe" (28). This sentence gives an image of the smoke brimming, while also giving us a sense of its smell, taste, and smooth texture. And that is the beauty of synaesthesia.