Pass (shows explicit awareness of discrepancy between literal and intended meaning) |
Fail (no evidence of perceiving non-literal meaning) |
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She’s being sarcastic/sarcasm | Because it is sunny [raining] |
She doesn’t mean it | Its lovely outside |
Because its an idiom | She likes rain [picnics]/ We need rain |
She tricked him | She wants to play in the puddles |
Its her way of telling him she is upset | Because she [the cake] got wet |
Just to make up a little joke | Because he lied to her |
She is saying politely that she is not happy | She thought it was sunny/did not see clouds |
Because she is a smart aleck | She’s cross |
Because she is meaning “Why tell me it was nice?” |
To tell him off |
Because its not sunny | |
So he doesn’t feel bad | |
Because he said it first | |
Because her Dad likes the rain but she doesn’t |