Well a literary conceit, is something quite different.
A literary conceit is a written code in which the syntax changes to give additional meanings to compliment the text.
Their design was such that only initiated persons would understand them and that uninitiated would continue unaware in their limited reality concepts.
Homer is quite important in western literature as his work, or rather the work attributed to him set the standard for western literature.
What makes literature good in my view is the creation of a multidimensional perspective on the written work.
