Meanings and Metaphors - Activities to Practise Figurative Language (Properly Bookmarked) 0521774365, 9780521774369
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English Pages [145] Year 2003
Table of contents :
Cover
Contents
Map of the book
Introduction
1. What is figurative language?: Metaphors and Similies
2. The heart of the matter: Parts of the body
3. Playing the game: Games and sport
4. Time to spare: Time and money
5. A warm welcome: Weather
6. Taking steps: Life as a journey
7. A recipe for success: Cooking and tastes
8. Fabulous fables: Stories with metaphorical meanings
9. Ups and downs: Describing feelings
10. Running like clockwork: Machines
11. Branching out: Plants
12. Getting the green light: Colours
13. Opening doors: Parts of buildings
14. As free as a bird: Common similes
15. Marketing your metaphors: Advertising
16. A bird in the hand: Sayings
17. Mix me a metaphor: Poems
18. Selling with similes: Inventing similes
19. Shedding light on the matter: Light and dark
20. Plain sailing: Games and sport
21. Rising to the top: 'Up' and 'down'
22. Infectious laughter: Health and illness
23. Facing up to it: Parts of the body
24. Horsing around: Animals
25. Food for thought: Cooking and food
26. In a nutshell: Origins of idioms
27. Keeping your cool: Temperature
28. Rough diamonds: Describing people
29. Persuasion: Advertising
30. Breezing through: Weather
31. Pictures in the mind: Descriptive writing
32. Ripples and sparks: Water and fire
33. Learning is juggling: Analogies
34. The long night of captivity: Metaphors in rhetoric
Extension and revison activities
Student record sheet
How many metaphors can you find illustrated on the cover? Suggested answers
Back Cover
Cover
Contents
Map of the book
Introduction
1. What is figurative language?: Metaphors and Similies
2. The heart of the matter: Parts of the body
3. Playing the game: Games and sport
4. Time to spare: Time and money
5. A warm welcome: Weather
6. Taking steps: Life as a journey
7. A recipe for success: Cooking and tastes
8. Fabulous fables: Stories with metaphorical meanings
9. Ups and downs: Describing feelings
10. Running like clockwork: Machines
11. Branching out: Plants
12. Getting the green light: Colours
13. Opening doors: Parts of buildings
14. As free as a bird: Common similes
15. Marketing your metaphors: Advertising
16. A bird in the hand: Sayings
17. Mix me a metaphor: Poems
18. Selling with similes: Inventing similes
19. Shedding light on the matter: Light and dark
20. Plain sailing: Games and sport
21. Rising to the top: 'Up' and 'down'
22. Infectious laughter: Health and illness
23. Facing up to it: Parts of the body
24. Horsing around: Animals
25. Food for thought: Cooking and food
26. In a nutshell: Origins of idioms
27. Keeping your cool: Temperature
28. Rough diamonds: Describing people
29. Persuasion: Advertising
30. Breezing through: Weather
31. Pictures in the mind: Descriptive writing
32. Ripples and sparks: Water and fire
33. Learning is juggling: Analogies
34. The long night of captivity: Metaphors in rhetoric
Extension and revison activities
Student record sheet
How many metaphors can you find illustrated on the cover? Suggested answers
Back Cover
- Author / Uploaded
- Gillian Lazar
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