Read the excerpt from The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone.It earned him a reputation for being an expert on the hieroglyphs—a reputation that lasted, unfortunately, long after his death in 1680.Which phrase from this excerpt best shows the author’s viewpoint of Athanasius Kircher’s ideas?
When correcting a dangling modifier, what is a good question to ask?
Read this excerpt from The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone.He lined up the two groups of symbols and made a comparison.At once it was apparent that three of the hieroglyphs found in the name Ptolemy—the first, third, and fourth—could also be found in their correct places in the name Cleopatra—the fifth, fourth, and second respectively.What is the best prediction that can be made about Champollion’s research techniques?
Select the sentence where the word “hot” correctly modifies the word “chowder.”
Which of the following words can be defined as “a doctor who studies skin.”
Read the following excerpt from The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone.But the process proved to be much more difficult than de Sacy had anticipated. He succeeded in isolating the groups of demotic letters for the names of Ptolemy and Alexander, but found it impossible to identify the individual letters in the names. Eventually he gave up, saying, "The problem is too complicated, scientifically insoluble.”Based on the details in the excerpt, the author most likely thinks de Sacy lacked
Read the poem "Autumn" by Emily Dickinson.The morns are meeker than they were,The nuts are getting brown;The berry's cheek is plumper,The rose is out of town.The maple wears a gayer scarf,The field a scarlet gown.Lest I should be old-fashioned,I'll put a trinket on. Which statement best explains the central idea of the second stanza?
Read the excerpt from “The Treasure of Lemon Brown.”“When you get as old as me all you say when something hurts is, ‘Howdy, Mr. Pain, sees you back again.’ Then when Mr. Pain see he can’t worry you none, he go on mess with somebody else.”Greg smiled.Which types of indirect characterization are used?
According to The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone, what causes the French to surrender to the British in September 1801?
Based on the details in The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone, what is the last effect of the French surrendering to the British in September 1801?
Which of the following words has both a prefix and a suffix?
Read this excerpt from "Aedh Gives His Beloved Certain Rhymes” by William Butler Yeats.And all men's hearts must burn and beat;And candle-like foam on the dim sand,And stars climbing the dew-dropping sky,Live but to light your passing feet.What does Yeats want readers to visualize when he describes his love walking by?
Read the following excerpt from "The Boy Who Glowed."When the fisherman returned home, he was overjoyed by his wife’s discovery. He knew that the child would bring joy to their lives. Under their roof, the baby grew quickly into a strong and capable boy. His adoptive parents noticed that their son’s face began to radiate a warm, golden light. This light grew in intensity with each passing year. Whenever the boy sat on the shore with his mother, streams of light stretched out across the waves.
Read the sentence.Cynthia’s cousin, who is an amazing chef in a high-class restaurant, is always in charge of the food for their annual family reunions.
Which title is capitalized correctly?
Which answer choice is the best topic for a personal narrative?
Read the paragraph.The next day, we began the trek up Mount Magnificent. At first, the climb was an easy walk on a well-marked trail. But soon, we were scrambling over _______ boulders and scaling walls of stone.
Read this entry from a blog about service dogs.Lexie, an eight-month-old black Labrador retriever, is sleeping quietly at my feet. I can’t help but think that her soft, velvety ears and alert brown eyes would make her the perfect “doggie model” for pet magazines and pet store ads. However, Lexie will soon have a much more important job to do. In a few months, she will become the loyal companion and service dog for a young man who has been blind since birth. She will help him board public transportation, such as buses, subways, and trains, and she will help him safely cross busy intersections. Lexie will even help the young man avoid obstacles, such as high curbs and low overhangs. Like all dogs in our organization, Lexie has undergone months of specialized training to help a visually impaired person lead an active and independent life.
Read the excerpt about Olympus from The Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens.On the cloud-capped summit of Olympus was the palace of Zeus and Hera, of burnished gold, chased silver, and gleaming ivory. Lower down were the homes of the other gods, which, though less commanding in position and size, were yet similar to that of Zeus in design and workmanship, all being the work of the divine artist Hephaestus. Below these were other palaces of silver, ebony, ivory, or burnished brass, where the Heroes, or Demi-gods, resided.
The words and actions of Lemon Brown in "The Treasure of Lemon Brown” makes him seem like?
Read the sentence.Although it was raining slightly outside, Tamanika decided to go for a walk.
Read the excerpt from “How I Learned English.”Ron O’Neill, Jim, Dennis, were talking it upIn the field, a blue sky above themTipped with cirrus.And there I was,Just off the plane and plopped in the middleOf Williamsport, Pa. and a neighborhood game,Unnatural and without any moves,My notions of baseball and AmericaGrowing fuzzier each time I whiffed.The first-person point of view in this excerpt helps readers understand
Read this paragraph.Before the Rosetta Stone was discovered in 1799, no one knew how to read Egyptian hieroglyphic writing. Its meaning had been lost for almost 1400 years. But countless visitors to Egypt over the centuries had tried to decipher the mysterious symbols. This is the story of their attempts, and of how the Rosetta Stone finally enabled scholars to unlock the Egyptian past.Which sentence states a position that the author plans to prove in The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone?
Read the excerpt from "Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins.I say drop a mouse into a poemand watch him probe his way outWhich statement best interprets the metaphor in these lines?
Read this question from “The Girl Who Silenced the World for Five Minutes.”If a child on the street who has nothing is willing to share, why are we who have everything still so greedy?
Read this excerpt from "Birdfoot's Grampa.”But, leathery hands fullof wet brown life,knee deep in the summerroadside grass,he just smiled and saidthey have places to go totoo."They have places to go to” is an example of
Read the passage from "Names/Nombres" by Julia Alvarez.By the time I was in high school, I was a popular kid, and it showed in my name. Friends called me Jules or Hey Jude, and once a group of troublemaking friends my mother forbade me to hang out with called me Alcatraz. I was Hoo-lee-tah only to Mami and Papi and uncles and aunts who came over to eat sancocho on Sunday afternoons – old world folk whom I would just as soon go back to where they came from and leave me to pursue whatever mischief I wanted to in America. JUDY ALCATRAZ, the name on the "Wanted" poster would read. Who would ever trace her to me?
Read the sentence.I love reading travel books because they include beautiful pictures of faraway places and they motivate me to explore the world.
Read the sentence.We asked Ahmad to notify us if he was not coming through e-mail.Which is the best revision of this sentence?
The first-person point of view in "How I Learned English” helps readers
Read the sentence.Although rabbits are fast, bears are powerful, which I think better represents our school’s baseball and football teams.
Which excerpt from “The Girl Who Silenced the World for Five Minutes” creates a shameful tone?
Which blog is most likely written to persuade readers?
Based on the repetition in “Twelfth Song of Thunder,” the voice
Which line from The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone is a clue that helps show the author’s attitude toward Thomas Young?
Read this excerpt from “What I Hope to Leave Behind.”For a number of years it took so much vitality to keep the home going, and that home represented so many different kinds of activities, that none of us had any urge to go outside of this sphere. Gradually in every civilization there comes a time when work of the household is done by servants, either human or mechanical.When the care of the children ceases to be entirely in one person's hands, then in the past, as in the present, women have turned to other things. Some have changed the map of the world, some of them have influenced literature, some have inspired music.
Read this excerpt from The Outsiders.Or I could have gotten one of the gang to come along, one of the four boys Darry and Soda and I have grown up with and consider family. We’re almost as close as brothers; when you grow up in a tight-knit neighborhood like ours you get to know each other real well.
Read the excerpt from "Aunty Misery.”Time passed and both Aunty Misery and her tree grew bent and gnarled with age. One day another traveler stopped at her door. This one looked untrustworthy to her, so before letting him into her home the old woman asked him what he was doing in her village. He answered her in a voice that was dry and hoarse, as if he had swallowed a desert. "I am Death, and I have come to take you with me."Which element of an allegory is found in this excerpt?
Read this excerpt from The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone. After graduating in 1807 from the upper school in Grenoble, Champollion went to Paris. There he studied with Sylvestre de Sacy, the scholar who had attempted to decipher the writings on the Rosetta Stone a few years earlier.Based on this excerpt, what is the best prediction that can be made?
Which choice is one reason Walt Whitman repeats words in “I Hear America Singing”?
Read the excerpt from "The Girl Who Silenced the World for Five Minutes."I'm only a child and I don't have all the solutions, but I want you to realise, neither do you!• You don't know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer.• You don't know how to bring salmon back up a dead stream. . . .If you don't know how to fix it, please stop breaking it!
Read this excerpt from The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone by James Cross Giblin.A few experts challenged Champollion's methods and clung to the notion that the hieroglyphs had a purely symbolic meaning. But Champollion's defenders, after further studies, proved his approach correct beyond any doubt.Which answer choice best states a cause-and-effect relationship from the excerpt?
Read this excerpt from “What I Hope to Leave Behind.”If we have known happy homes, we want to reproduce the same type of thing we have had; and even though we may always be critical of some things in our past, time nearly always puts a halo around even a few of the disagreeable things, and most women dream, as they rock their babies or busy themselves in household tasks, that their daughters will do the same things someday.
Read the excerpt from The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone by James Cross Giblin.De Guignes guessed rightly that the cartouches in hieroglyphic inscriptions were intended to draw attention to important names, probably the names of Egyptian rulers.Along with such insights, de Guignes advanced other ideas about the hieroglyphs that were as silly as any that had been proposed by Kircher or Horapollo. After comparing some Egyptian hieroglyphs with examples of Chinese picture writing, de Guignes announced that settlers from Egypt must have colonized China in ancient times.What ideas of de Guignes differed sharply from the author’s?
In "The Snow King,” what can the reader infer about the person who made the snowman?
Read the excerpt from “The Snow-Queen.”Kay and Gerda were looking at one of their picture-books—the clock in the great church-tower had just struck five, when Kay exclaimed, “Oh! something has stung my heart, and I've got something in my eye!”The little girl threw her arms round his neck; he winked hard with both his eyes; no, she could see nothing in them.“I think it is gone now,” said he; but it had not gone. It was one of the tiny splinters of the glass of the magic mirror which we have heard about, that turned everything great and good reflected in it small and ugly. And poor Kay had also a splinter in his heart, and it began to change into a lump of ice. It did not hurt him at all, but the splinter was there all the same.
Read the following excerpt from "The Boy Who Glowed.”In the long distant past, upon the western shores of the Great Water, there lived a fisherman and his wife. They had no children and the nearest village was a day away. They lived alone, surrounded by rocky cliffs and dull, gray skies. Each day, the fisherman would go out upon the Great Water. His wife would sit on the beach watching the birds with their young circling in the sky and riding the waves. As the birds chatted and dove for minnows, she called out, "Oh, sea birds, how I wish I had children like you to keep me company during these long, gray days.”
Which excerpt from "The Roller Coaster" is the best example of external conflict?
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