Passage an element of foreshadowing
8. the author wes o notable sentences featuring alliteration. write both of those
sentences and underline the ports that are alliterative

From his studies of coptic, champollion knew that the egyptian word for "sun" was pronounced rah. he wrote down the first two letters of that sound, ra. next he put a question mark for the unknown middle hieroglyph. then, at the end, he wrote ss, the sound of the last two hieroglyphs. he studied the combination: ra ? ss. suddenly he remembered a famous pharaoh whose name appeared in ancient greek chronicles and also in the biblical book of exodus: rameses, or ramesses. could this be a hieroglyphic representation of ramesses' name? based on the excerpt, what detail did champollion need to conclude that the hieroglyphics might represent ramesses’s name?

Read the excerpt from it's our world, too! : young people who are making a difference.the author’s purpose in this excerpt is to

Which most closely analyzes the information about briony's dreams of becoming an olympic athlete?