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Meanings and metaphors : activities to practise figurative language /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lazar, Gillian
Format: Book
Language: Spanish
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Inglés > Estudio y enseñanza
Notas Contenido:
  • What is figurative language? : metaphors and similes
  • The heart of the matter : parts of the body
  • Playing the game : games and sports
  • Time to spare : time and money
  • A warm welcome : weather
  • Taking steps : life is a journey
  • A recipe for success : cooking and tastes
  • Fabulous fables : stories with metaphorical meanings
  • Ups and downs : describing feelings
  • Running like clockwork : machines
  • Branching out : plants
  • Getting the green light : colours
  • Opening doors : parts of buildings
  • As free as a bird : common similes
  • Marketing your metaphors : advertising
  • A bird in the hand : proverbs
  • Mix me a metaphor : poems
  • Selling with similes : inventing similes
  • Shedding light on the matter : light and dark
  • Plain sailing : games and sports
  • Rising to the top : 'up' and 'down'
  • Infectious laughter : health and illness
  • Facing up to it : parts of the body
  • Horsing around : animals
  • Food for thought : cooking and food
  • In a nutshell : origins of idioms
  • Keeping your cool : temperature
  • Rough diamonds : describing people
  • Persuasion : advertising
  • Breezing through : weather
  • Pictures in the mind : descriptive writing
  • Ripples and sparks : water and fire
  • Learning is juggling : analogies
  • The long night of captivity : metaphors in rhetoric.

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