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conceit: a standalone construct

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conceit1 CONSTRUCTPoetic conceitDISCORDIA CONCORS

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Poetics

An elaborate, far-fetched extended comparison

In poetics a conceit is an intricate and often surprising extended metaphor or analogy that yokes together ideas or images usually thought unlike, sustained and elaborated across a passage, as in the metaphysical conceit comparing two lovers to the legs of a compass. The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics and Abrams and Harpham's glossary trace its Petrarchan and metaphysical traditions and the "discordia concors" that joins dissimilars into a single figure. The referent is a developed, deliberately far-fetched comparison functioning as the organising figure of a poem or passage, recognised by the ingenuity and extension of the likeness rather than by a single turned word.[1][2]

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A single extended comparison sustained and elaborated across a passage
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Identified by tracing an ingenious likeness developed and extended through a passage of verse

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metaphor3 fields · 3 citationsinvariant · one construct, three systemsanalogy4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructsego4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

  1. Greene, R., Cushman, S., Cavanagh, C., Ramazani, J., & Rouzer, P. (Eds.). (2012). The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics (4th ed.). Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691154916
  2. Abrams, M. H., & Harpham, G. G. (2015). A glossary of literary terms (11th ed.). Cengage Learning. ISBN 9781285465067

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