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Conceit
Aside from its common usage, signifying "excessive pride", in literary terms, a conceit is an extended metaphor with a complex logic that governs an entire poem or poetic passage. By juxtaposing, usurping and manipulating images and ideas in surprising ways, a conceit invites the reader into a more sophisticated understanding of an object of comparison.
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Métaphore filée
La métaphore filée est constituée d'une suite de métaphores sur le même thème. La première métaphore en engendre d'autres, construites à partir du même comparant, et développant un champ lexical dans la suite du texte.Bien que distincte, on rapproche la métaphore filée de l’allégorie. Par exemple, Baudelaire, dans L'ennemi, fait usage d'une métaphore filée pour illustrer la vie du poète.
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conceit
خودبينى ،غرور،استعاره
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conceit
\con*ceit"\ (?), n. [through french, fr. l. conceptus a conceiving, conception, fr. concipere to conceive: cf. of. p. p. nom. conciez conceived. see conceive, and cf. concept, deceit.]
1. that which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image; conception. in laughing, there ever procedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous. a man wise in his own conceit. xxvi. 12.
2. faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension; as, a man of quick conceit. [obs.] how often, alas! did her eyes say unto me that they loved! and yet i, not looking for such a matter, had not my conceit open to understand them. sidney.
3. quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy. his wit's as thick as tewksbury mustard; there's more conceit in him than is in a mallet.
4. a fanciful, odd, or extravagant notion; a quant fancy; an unnatural or affected conception; a witty thought or turn of expression; a fanciful device; a whim; a quip. on his way to the gibbet, a freak took him in the head to go off with a conceit. some to conceit alone their works confine, and glittering thoughts struck out at every line. tasso is full of conceits which are not only below the dignity of heroic verse but contrary to its nature.
5. an overweening idea of one's self; vanity. plumed with conceit he calls aloud. otton.
6. design; pattern. [obs.]

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CONCEIT
PRESUNZIONE. ORGOGLIO. VANITÀ. IDEA BAROCCA. PARAGONE RICERCATO

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