Scribes generally used the hieratic form when they were writing on papyrus and hieroglyphs when they were carving inscriptions in plaster or limestone. Later, in about 700 B. C., hieratic writing was simplified further and became the form known as demotic. It was in demotic, of course, that one of the passages on the Rosetta Stone was carved. —The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone,
James Cross Giblin

Choose the best meaning for the word "hieratic” as it is used in the passage.

having lots of style
having to do with priests
a form of cursive writing
very formal

“dènouement” is another word for the of a plot.

Read this excerpt from wheels of change by sue macy.that said, it's hard to grasp the full extent of the bicycle's impact on americans in the late 19th century—particularly female americans. imagine a population imprisoned by their very clothing; the stiff corsets, heavy skirts, and voluminous petticoats that made it difficult to take a deep breath, let alone exercise. add to that the laws and social conventions that cemented a man's place as head of the household and holder of the purse strings. how suffocated women must have felt. and how liberated they must have been as they pedaled their wheels toward new horizons.what is the central idea of the excerpt

What is the phrase a tiny shoot of phase prikled by the mind