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Hope is an optimistic state of mind that is based on an expectation of positive outcomes with respect to events and circumstances in one's own life, or the world at large. [1] As a verb, Merriam-Webster defines hope as "to expect with confidence" or "to cherish a desire with anticipation". [2] Among its opposites are dejection, hopelessness ...
Hypsos – great or worthy writing, sometimes called sublime; Longinus's theme in On the Sublime. Hysteron proteron – a rhetorical device in which the first key word of the idea refers to something that happens temporally later than the second key word; the goal is to call attention to the more important idea by placing it first.
An interrogative word or question word is a function word used to ask a question, such as what, which, when, where, who, whom, whose, why, whether and how. They are sometimes called wh-words , because in English most of them start with wh- (compare Five Ws ).
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As a consequence of this ambiguity, Greeks had ambivalent or even negative feelings about "hope". In his play The Suppliants, Euripides has a herald describe Elpis as "man's curse; many a state hath it involved in strife". [4] In addition, the concept was unimportant in the philosophical systems of the Stoics and Epicureans. [5]
Hope (Swallow the Sun album) or the title song, 2007; Hope (Toshiko Akiyoshi album) or the title song (see below), 2006; Hope (War Child album), a compilation produced by the UK charity, 2003; Hope, by Betty Buckley, 2018; Hope, by iamnot, 2017; Hope, by Michael English, 1993; Hope, by Sigma, or the title song, 2022; Hope, by Third Party, 2017
As water receded in Stronie Slaskie, one of the areas worst-hit by massive floods in south-west Poland, residents and volunteers began clearing up in hope their homes would be liveable before the ...
Enculturated apes Kanzi, Washoe, Sarah and a few others who underwent extensive language training programs (with the use of gestures and other visual forms of communications) successfully learned to answer quite complex questions and requests (including question words "who", "what", "where"), although so far they have failed to learn how to ask ...