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The inference that can be made based on the details in the excerpt is that professional writers in ancient Egypt were highly skilled.
Explanation:
The passage presents evidence of how writing was an exclusive skill in Egyptian society. It was not taught to everyone in society at large but only government officials, administrators, and doctors or religious figures. The Rosetta Stone has helped Egyptologists to translate ancient Egyptian because there is an Ancient Greek translation of the hieroglyphs on the stone that was discovered in 1799.
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Breakfast was amazing, <u>but</u> I kept knocking stuff off the breakfast table. I couldn't work properly <u>because</u> I had stayed up the whole night typing away without stopping on the huge computer <em>like a beaver tirelessly building a dam out of wood</em>. I somehow managed to go to school where I had to write more boring essays. Finally, the bell rung to signal the start of lunchtime. A most heavenly time.
<u>Underlined</u>= conjunctions
Bold= descriptive words
<em>Italics</em>= figurative language
Explanation:
First of all, you need to know what descriptive language, coordinating conjunctions and figurative language is.
Conjunctions are words which link two sentences together. Examples of thse are: <em>but, and, or, as well as </em>etc.
Figurative language is all about metaphors, similes, personifications etc. Figurative language include words and phrases such as: <em>He slept like a log</em> (simile). These type of sentences compare an object to another object, but not in a literal way.
Descriptive language is about describing a scene, object, person etc. A descriptive word can be an adjective, metaphor, adverb, simile and other word groups.
Hope this helps.
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Explanation:
They were also against allowing new states to join the United States as slave states. Some people were opposed to slavery for moral reasons, and they formed a movement formed in the North called abolitionism. The movement called for the legal end to slavery in all of the United States.
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Wiglaf is Swedish, but when he said, "I started to help my relatives," he thought of himself as a relative of Beowulf. Wiglaf came to Beowulf to help with the fight against the Dragon. This represents some important heroic virtue in Wiglaf.
