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An extended metaphor, also known as a conceit or sustained metaphor, is the use of a single metaphor or analogy at length in a work of literature. It...

Look up conceit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A conceit is an extended metaphor, especially in literature. Conceit may also refer to: Conceit (novel)...

In drama and other art forms, the central conceit of a work of fiction is the underlying fictitious assumption which must be accepted by the audience...

The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism is a book written by the economist and political philosopher Friedrich Hayek and edited by the philosopher...

Gambler's conceit is the fallacy described by behavioral economist David J. Ewing where a gambler believes they will be able to stop a risky behavior...

Conceit (fl. c. 2007) is an American rapper from San Francisco. He won the YouTube "On The Rise" video contest, [clarification needed][when?] where the...

Conceit is a novel by the Canadian author Mary Novik, published in 2007 by Doubleday Canada. Set in 17th century London, Conceit is the story of Pegge...

Conceit is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Burton George, produced by Selznick Pictures, and released by Select Pictures. The film stars...

album, the band had demoed three tracks, "A New Level", "Regular People (Conceit)" and "No Good (Attack the Radical)". The rest of the songs were written...

is a Buddhist term that may be translated as "pride", "arrogance", or "conceit". It is defined as an inflated mind that makes whatever is suitable, such...

My Lord Conceit is a 1921 British crime film directed by F. Martin Thornton and starring Evelyn Boucher, Maresco Marisini and Rowland Myles. Evelyn Boucher...

An example of Kaur's imagery which uses the central conceit of self-harm...

flood. All are modest and tuneful enough to make you forgive 'Disease of Conceit,' which is neither." But as Heylin notes, "Though many a critic who had...

Satirical print from the pamphlet Greene in Conceit (1598) depicting the deceased Robert Greene (wearing a winding sheet) still writing from beyond the...

Author and critic Salman Rushdie argues that it has "a patently ridiculous conceit." The film received positive reviews from many Indian film critics, though...

personal generosity and extreme cruelty and driven by insatiable curiosity, conceit, and ambition. Publius Aelius Hadrianus was born on 24 January 76, in Italica...

achievements but called the story "cheesy and simplistic" that is "a flimsy conceit that serves as an excuse for Aronofsky to deliver what audiences are really...

in-depth discussion of strange-but-true stories. The show employs the conceit that it is a "time capsule" of information to be preserved for people in...

Indian cinema". Rachel Saltz of New York Times felt that Susanna was more conceit than a character and that Chopra "though charming as always, can't make...

to cease completely any effort to resolve the kōan and "to give up the conceit that they have the intellectual tools that would allow them to understand...