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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

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sure brought to you by the stewed fish not to

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be mixed up with the ass stewed fish the smartest

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fish in all the land You might know him better

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as you know the shmoop fish All right take a

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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

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straight up lying to save his own tail and well

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the whale is just thinking with his stomach anyway so

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this is the best characterization of their relationship so onto

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d sorry to break it to you whale But the

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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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