1. Types of figurative language
METAPHORS AND IDIOMS
Types of figurative language

2. Metaphors and idioms Used to create imagery
Not taken for their literal meanings
Used to create more vivid and life-like qualities in your words

3. Metaphor
An expression that describes a person or object by referring to something that is considered to possess similar characteristics.
It links two unrelated things that are not normally linked.
This linking is not an open, or simple, comparison, but a hidden one where you are saying something is equal to something else, even though the two are clearly not the same thing. 

4. The road was a ribbon wrapped through the desert.
Metaphor
The road was a ribbon wrapped through the desert.
The road = the ribbon

5. Metaphor

6. Metaphor vs. simile
Metaphors are different from similes which highlight a similarity and suggest that one thing is like another.
This connect is an open, simple one (explicit).
Similes are normally identified by the word “like” or “as.” 

7. Metaphor vs. simile

8. Idiom
A group of words whose meaning considered as a unit is different from the meanings of each word considered separately.
The context can help you understand what an idiom means.
Many idioms are also considered cliches because they are used so frequently.

9. Idiom
"She has a bee in her bonnet," meaning "she is preoccupied or obsessed with an idea," cannot be literally translated into another language word for word.
Break a leg!

10. Here are some examples of idioms...
Kick the bucket
Hear it on a grapevine
Add insult to injury
Sit on the fence
Once in a blue moon
Tie the knot
The whole nine yards
Out of the blue
Off the hook
Let sleeping dogs lie
Raining cats and dogs
Smell something fishy
Third time’s a charm
Go the extra mile
Tongue-in-cheek
Flip the bird
All bark and no bite
A slap on the wrist
Beat around the bush....

11. ...but there are many more...
Some of them can be found in your Student’s book,
p 85!
Thank you!