Dialogue comes next a little bit slower than dramatic action. With dialogue you hear or read the characters words in real time is the slow closest technique to real storytime faster paced the narration, but a bit slower than dramatic action. This passage which picks up where the previous lesson left off is almost entirely dialogue with speech, speech tags, and short bits of dramatic action interspersed. The passage begins with Scots first made Harry speaking. It's my fault, he said in a low, soft voice. I've got this bad leg and the Skipper's been after me to get the doctors with it.

I'm his mate. She blinked and he said, First Mate next in command after the master. She nodded. And he explained yesterday, we were bringing up the rigs anchors and the skipper must have seen me trip on the deck. It's the cold gets to the damned leg. been afraid to go to the doctor's afraid I'd find out it was.

Well, anyway, Skipper put me on the bridge and took my place. That's why he was there when the Bruce cut loose instead of safe on the bridge where it should have been. She hugged herself trying to understand the strange terms. He's your captain, isn't he? He nodded. And she said, if he ordered you off the deck, you had to go.

He wouldn't blame you, would he? She wondered if she would ever feel warm again. Could you explain to me what happened? I don't know what the Bruce is, and I need to know what happened. Notice how dialogue slows the pace with the cadence of speech and the extra words and diversions we humans often include in our speech. This makes dialogue a little slower than dramatic action.

Dialogue is the closest to real time of all the modes of discourse. Next up narration slowest of the first four modes of discourse. Thanks for watching.