There are regarded the semantic classifications of metaphors by N.D. Arutunova, V.G. Gak, V.P. Moskvin, G.N. Sklyarevskaya. There are analyzed the youth newspapers regarding the motivated, syncretic and associative metaphors of the meliorative and pejorative assessments. Based on the research there are reveled the similarities and differences of metaphor use in the thematic subgroups based on the suggested classification.