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Common Core 8th Grade 4.5 Reading Literary Text. What does the use of dialogue show about the relationship between the Whale and the 'Stute Fish?
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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop too
- 00:05
sure brought to you by the stewed fish not to
- 00:09
be mixed up with the ass stewed fish the smartest
- 00:12
fish in all the land You might know him better
- 00:15
as you know the shmoop fish All right take a
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- 00:17
look at this excerpt from how the whale got his
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throat Here's today's Question What does the use of dialogue
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show about the relationship between the whale and the stewed
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fish And hear your potential Answer All right well let's
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take a look at a we do know that the
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stewed fish doesn't want to be eaten by the whale
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who would it's all dark and scary in there But
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even though this is true it's not the best description
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of the relationship between the two well howbout be well
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the well might get by with a little help from
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his friends but this stupid isn't one of them He
- 00:48
straight up lying to save his own tail and well
- 00:51
the whale is just thinking with his stomach anyway so
- 00:54
this is the best characterization of their relationship so onto
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d sorry to break it to you whale But the
- 00:59
stewed fish did not feel bad for you He was
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just trying to avoid being your dinner That leaves us
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with c a whale is hungry and the studio is
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trying to convince bruce that a mariner is a much
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more tasty meal for a whale answer See best shows
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this so that's our answer Yes that little student was 00:01:16.076 --> [endTime] pretty clever after all no
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