Read the following passage from Zora Neale Hurstori's "How II Feels to be Colored Me

The great blobs of purple and red emotion have not touched him. He has only heard what I felt. He is far away and I see him but dimly across the ocean and the continent that have fallen between us.

What type of literary device is being used here?

A. Understatement

B. Conceit

C. Synesthesia

D. Paradox