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niloo66

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Persian
Hello dear friends
someone in my book, is describing fall scenes by personifying it. so the listener says "Classic." what does it mean?
"Maya rolls her eyes. she says.
“Yeah.” I laugh. “Spacing out and thinking leaves are hands? Sounds about right.”"
is it a kind of admiration of his imagination or she is mocking him?
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If Maya rolls her eyes and calls the performance classic, she should be making a sarcastic remark about a performance that wasn't very good.

In a positive context, classic would mean that the performance was good enough to be ranked highly along with other very good performances.
If Maya rolls her eyes and calls the performance classic, she should be making a sarcastic remark about a performance that wasn't very good.
thank you and when the second speaker says "sounds about right" it means that the second speaker agree with the one who says "Classic?"
It should mean that the second speaker knows that the performance was not good, but that speaker is pretending that the lousy performance truly deserved to be called classic.

PS If you have a question about two characters in a novel, it is very helpful to give both of those characters a name. That makes it much easier to answer questions about what they are saying.
It should mean that the second speaker knows that the performance was not good, but that speaker is pretending that the lousy performance truly deserved to be called classic
she laughs, though. So, Doesn't "Sounds about right," mean "say it again?"
No. She is laughing because they both know that the performance was lame (bad, clumsy, ridiculous). This is a lighthearted moment.
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