Meanings and metaphors : activities to practise figurative language /
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2003.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.