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Conceit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aside from its common usage, signifying "excessive pride" (i.e. the conception of Self, the excessive pride as a result of having an inflated conception of self-worth), in literary terms, a conceit ...
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Metaphor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A metaphor is a figure of speech concisely comparing two things, saying that one is the other. The English metaphor derives from the 16th c. Old French métaphore , from the Latin metaphora “ca...
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A conceit is a figure of speech which makes an unusual and sometimes elaborately sustained comparison between two dissimilar things. Related to wit, there are two main types:
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Metaphor, however, is also the general term for any comparison, including simile, metaphor, conceit, and analogy. In his column in Natural History, Stephen Jay Gould writes:
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an elaborate, fanciful metaphor, esp. of a strained or far-fetched nature. ... The Petrarchan conceit, which was especially popular with Renaissance writers of sonnets, is a hyperbolic comparison made generally by a suffering lover of his beautiful and cruel mistress to some physical object-e.g., a tomb, the ocean, the sun.
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Mrs Metaphor ... It’s a good design and an apt metaphor. ... So much is like life, so much is metaphor if we decide to apply it as such. You know me, I can’t seem to help myself when I run across a situation that feels as though it applies to a broader truth, I have to post it.
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