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12.11.2020 • 
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Based on the context of each excerpt from "The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop, choose the word that most closely matches the denotation of the bolded word. sulky or angry firmly fixed or attached compressed or crumpled I caught a tremendous fish and held him beside the boat half out of water, with my hook fast in a corner of his mouth. arrowBoth A green line, frayed at the end where he broke it, two heavier lines, and a fine black thread still crimped from the strain and snap when it broke and he got away. arrowBoth I admired his sullen face, the mechanism of his jaw, and then I saw that from his lower lip —if you could call it a lip grim, wet, and weapon like, hung five old pieces of fish-line

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