Thank you for your readiness to fill in this questionnaire. Firstly, you will be asked to decide how literal or metaphorical each of the presented sentences is on a scale from 1-7. Then you will be asked to provide some basic background information about the languages you know and your education.



The data is collected for the purposes of a project conducted at the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. All data will remain anonymous and will be used non-commercially for scientific purposes. Should you have any questions, please contact us at patrycja.kakuba@amu.edu.pl



The completion of the questionnaire should take around 10 minutes.



INSTRUCTIONS

On a seven-point scale, please rate how literal or metaphorical a given sentence is. Please, follow the first impression after having read each sentence.



SCALE

1 – very literal

2 – literal

3 – somewhat literal

4 – neither literal nor metaphorical

5 – somewhat metaphorical

6 – metaphorical

7 – very metaphorical



EXAMPLES





The athlete climbed the podium - Very literal (1)





Adam has very high ambitions - Very metaphorical (7)





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