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Conceit奇特的比喻Aside from its common usage, signifying excessive pride (i.e. the conceit, the excessive pride experienced as a result of having an intellect vastly superior to the rest of the class), in literary terms, a conceit[1] 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. Extended conceits in English are part of the poetic idiom of Mannerism, during the later sixteenth and