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How do the words used to describe the speaker's examination and reaction to the shark contribute to the tone of the passage?

Poem: Twice I walked With Dinosaurs
One summer we found
a dead baby shark
washed up on the beach,
cut it open with a dinner knife
from the house,
and performed an
outdoor autopsy
As we marveled at its
miniature anatomy,
reveled in the smallness
of each little organ,
seagulls circled overhead.
The ocean was quiet,
barely making waves.
It kept vigil for its tiny causality.

The spring prior,
an alligator wandered
onto the beach during my
uncle’s second wedding.
It was far enough away
to merit an absence of fear, but
nobody took photos or said
a word— we just stared
as it settled itself in the surf,
hoping to be cleansed.

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Answer: Once someone found a dead baby shark on the beach. After he brought it in the house he began to examinate his organs.Than some seaguls came at the house to try to eat the shark.After that,the ocean was so calm that it barely did any waves.

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Answer:

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Step-by-step explanation:

The writer puts an emphisis on how marvelously small everyrthing is inside the baby shark, which correlate with the second passage by telliung us about the time an alligator walked to his uncles second wedding (which correlates to the story as is the second time he saw a "dinosaur") on the same beach. This shows us that this world truly is small or what not.

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