![]() ![]() ![]() If a character is described as having a sharp pain, the reader must have experienced a sharp pain before to truly understand the character’s plight. So, when an author describes a sound as being loud, they are relying entirely upon the reader to imagine the sound at the appropriate volume. ![]() When I communicate through language, what I am really hoping is that the collection of noises that I utter evoke in you an intended experience. We could think of language as a bunch of words with particular definitions strung together by a set of semantic rules, but in practice the actual definitions and rules do not matter. Literature is unique as an art form in that it relies entirely upon a human construct to express an idea: language. Paintings, music, and dance all provide some tangible experience for the audience to latch on to, regardless of the underlying meaning of the work. Most art forms express ideas through an experience of the senses. ![]()
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