Athesis statement is
a one-sentence response to a prompt
a way to capture the audience's attention
the first sentence of a body paragraph
the sentence that begins the introduction

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?

How does the underlined figurative language contribute to the meaning of the poem?

Prompt: read the letter to the editor "i, too, have a dream." how does the writer use structure and language to persuade her readers and support her feelings about immigration? write an essay using evidence from the letter to answer the question.