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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La métaphore filée (substantif féminin), association des mots de métaphore et du verbe français filer (au sens de poursuivre une œuvre, un processus) est une
figure de style 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.
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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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