By c.1600 conceit was still being used as a synonym for thoughts, and as roughly equivalent to conceit, idea and conception.As a literary term this word has come to denote a fairly elaborate figurative device of a fancied kind which often incorporates metaphor, simile, hyperbole or oxymoron and it is intended to surprise and delight by its wit and ingenuity. The pleasure we get from many conceit is intellectual rather than sensuous. They are particularly associated with the metaphysical poets.They are found in abundance in the work of Italian Renaissance poets. We find a classic example of the conceit of oxymoron in Sir Thomas Wyatt's version of Petrarch's 134th sonnet:
I find no peace and all my was is done;
I fear and hope ,I burn and freeze like ice.
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