fast paced syncopated music to accentuate the comedy-high-pitched tense music to contrast the comedy - a serene melody to put the audience at ease-silence, with no music-slow music that builds up in tempo
The Raft of the Medusa has a triangular composition, and the hand gestures, body movement and clothing movement all points up towards the top of the triangle, where people are raising a flag to be rescued from the sinking raft.
Synonyms help us connect unknown words with known words. For example, one may not know the meaning of the word "nefarious" when used in this context: "The offense was more nefarious than previously thought." If we replace "nefarious" with "evil" or "wretched" the meaning is more comprehensible to those who don't know the meaning of "nefarious": The offense was more evil (wretched) than previously thought."
I hope this helps, I used nefarious as a somewhat uncommon term to better illustrate my point, and to explain why we use synonyms to learn new words. Simply put, synonyms bridge us to the unknown using the known as solid ground build from.
Thomas Edison's invention of the motion pictures became a powerful way to communicate ideas and emotions.