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==Origin==

==Origin==

[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from conceivre

[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from conceivre

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century]

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century]

==Definitions==

==Definitions==

*1a (1) : a result of mental [[activity]] : [[thought]] (2) : [[individual]] [[opinion]]  

*1a (1) : a result of mental [[activity]] : [[thought]] (2) : [[individual]] [[opinion]]  

:d : an organizing [[theme]] or [[concept]] <found his conceit for the film early — Peter Wilkinson>

:d : an organizing [[theme]] or [[concept]] <found his conceit for the film early — Peter Wilkinson>

==Description==

==Description==

In [[literature]], a '''conceit''' is an extended [[metaphor]] with a [[complex]] [[logic]] that governs a poetic passage or entire poem. 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. Extended conceits in [[English]] are part of the poetic idiom of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannerism Mannerism], during the later sixteenth and early seventeenth century.

In [[literature]], a '''conceit''' is an extended [[metaphor]] with a [[complex]] [[logic]] that governs a poetic passage or entire poem. 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. Extended conceits in [[English]] are part of the poetic idiom of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannerism Mannerism], during the later sixteenth and early seventeenth century.

==History of the term==

==History of the term==

In the [[Renaissance]], the term (which is related to the [[word]] [[concept]]) indicated any particularly fanciful [[expression]] of wit, and was later used pejoratively of outlandish poetic [[metaphors]].

In the [[Renaissance]], the term (which is related to the [[word]] [[concept]]) indicated any particularly fanciful [[expression]] of wit, and was later used pejoratively of outlandish poetic [[metaphors]].

Recent [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_criticism literary critics] have used the term to mean simply the style of extended and heightened [[metaphor]] common in the [[Renaissance]] and particularly in the 17th century, without any particular indication of value. Within this critical sense, the Princeton Encyclopedia makes a distinction between two kinds of conceits: the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceit#Metaphysical_conceit Metaphysical conceit] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceit#Petrarchan_conceit Petrarchan conceit]. In the latter, human [[experiences]] are described in terms of an outsized metaphor (a kind of metaphorical [[hyperbole]]), like the stock comparison of eyes to the sun, which [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare Shakespeare] makes light of in his [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet_130 sonnet 130]: "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun."

Recent [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_criticism literary critics] have used the term to mean simply the style of extended and heightened [[metaphor]] common in the [[Renaissance]] and particularly in the 17th century, without any particular indication of value. Within this critical sense, the Princeton Encyclopedia makes a distinction between two kinds of conceits: the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceit#Metaphysical_conceit Metaphysical conceit] and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceit#Petrarchan_conceit Petrarchan conceit]. In the latter, human [[experiences]] are described in terms of an outsized metaphor (a kind of metaphorical [[hyperbole]]), like the stock comparison of eyes to the sun, which [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare Shakespeare] makes light of in his [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet_130 sonnet 130]: "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun."

[[Category: Languages and Literature]]

[[Category: Languages and Literature]]