How does the text's language signal its organizational
pattern?
Read the passage about the Rosetta Stone.
Another, more complete copy of the same decree that
appeared on the Stone was found on a slab at Philae in
1848. Fuller translations of the hieroglyphic text soo
followed. A Latin version came out in 1851, a French one in
1867, and an English one in 1871.
Then, in 1887, yet another copy of the decree-this
almost intact-was unearthed in the ruins of a temple in
Lower Egypt. Now, for the first time, scholars had a version
of the hieroglyphic text that they could compare line-for-lin
with the Greek and demotic v
-The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone,
James Giblin
It creates a mental image of the hieroglyphic text.
It sets up a problem and suggests how it could be solved.
It uses time-oriented signal words and discusses events
in sequence.
It describes the similarities and differences between the
cultures that translated the text.
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[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant