When one interprets a quotation, one "unpacks" a quotation. One selects a quote for a rhetorical purpose. The quotation is useful. The writer must "unpack" the usefulness of the quotation; they must reveal their rhetorical purpose.
The Aztecs used a type of picture writing. It was called N'ahault.
It was called "writing in script." Many cursive computer fonts use the term. Writing by hand was (and is) called "writing longhand."
The ancient Egyptians writing is called: Hieroglyphics.
Another genre (distinctive type of writing in literature) is the short story.
Egyptians used a type of writing called hieroglyphics.
Crete was part of Ancient Greece. The Cretian writing system was called Cypriot syllabary. This was a local type of Greek writing.
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Hieroglphycics. Not sure if that's spelled right...
They wrote in a writing system called cryptic and hieroglyphics.
Many people think that the used Latin writing, but that isn't true. That is just the language that they spoke, the type of writing that they use was actually called the Roman Alphabet.
Persuasive or argumentative writing works to persuade readers.
The system of writing developed by the Sumerians was called Cuneiform.