A conceit used by the Italian poet Petrarch or similar to those he used. In the Renaissance, English poets were quite taken with Petrarch's conceits and recycled them in their own poetry. Example [..]

The kind of conceit (see above) used by Italian Renaissance poet Petrarch and popular in Renaissance English sonnets. Eyes like stars or the sun, hair like golden wires, lips like cherries, etc. are common examples. Oxymorons are also common, such as freezing fire, burning ice, etc. Picaresque novel. An episodic, often autobiographical novel about [..]

a poetic metaphor which usually compares the lover or the lover's situation to one of a stock set of situations (storms, storms at sea, fires, ships without rudders, hunters, etc.).  The term &am [..]