The author calls miss lottie’s house "the most ramshackle of all our ramshackle homes." it has "rickety frame siding," and is a "gray, rotting thing with no porch." also, miss lottie’s "queer-headed son" sitting on a "squeaky rocking chair" adds to the setting. what can the reader infer based on this description? a. miss lottie wants her son to repair her house, but he is lazy. b. the children look up to miss lottie with respect. c. miss lottie is old and feeble. d. miss lottie has a low social standing within the community and the children do not fear her.

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?

Drag each excerpt to its poetic structure. what poetic structures are evident in these poetry excerpts blank verse ballad stanza something there is that doesnt love a wall

What is implied in this sentence from mark twain's "the ? 1,000,000 bank-note"? i was puzzled, and wanted to discuss the matter a little further, but they didn't; so i took my leave, feeling hurt and insulted to be made the butt of what was apparently some kind of a practical joke, and yet obliged to put up with it, not being in circumstances to resent affronts from rich and strong folk.