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Sorry And here's your smoke du jour brought to you

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by check off the russian writer not the russian dude

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on star trek Check out the following passage if you're

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not already and just keep skimming and skimming russian names

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on the line Regular time keyword cherokee work There he

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was Everywhere were putin in this thing putin How does

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the reader know that The passages of drama Well and

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hear the potential answers Well this question doesn't pull any

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punches every single one of the answers is true of

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the passage but just one of the answers tells us

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something that's true only of plays option a is the

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easiest to eliminate because it's a big whopping generality the

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interactions of different personalities almost everything is at least a

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little bit about that plays books tv shows movies everything

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from jersey shore to war in peace This may be

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the one and only time those two are lumped in

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the same category All right we're going to take a

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pass on choice dia's well any old storybook plates that

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are probably involves more than one character in the alternative

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is pure loneliness answer see is probably the sneakiest to

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the bunch Drama does include a whole bunch of dialogue

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usually weigh more than any other kind of lit If

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playwrights don't give their actors enough to say the actors

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call their agents and then all hell breaks lose In

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the end though we can cross off choice See some

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books use a lot of dialogue too so we can't

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say it's the end all be all of drama Option

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b wins the day on ly drama has stage directions

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which help the reader imagine how the play might be

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acted out on stage Now if you'll excuse us we're 00:01:36.125 --> [endTime] going to exit stage left

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