Which sentence contains a phrase that best expresses a connotative meaning for the word hope? Araby
by James Joyce (excerpt)

Or if Mangan's sister came out on the doorstep to call her brother in to his tea, we watched her from our shadow peer up and down the street. We waited to see whether she would remain or go in and, if she remained, we left our shadow and walked up to Mangan's steps resignedly. She was waiting for us, her figure defined by the light from the half-opened door. Her brother always teased her before he obeyed, and I stood by the railings looking at her. Her dress swung as she moved her body, and the soft rope of her hair tossed from side to side.

One of the author's purposes in the code book is to explain different types of codebreaking to his readers. which line best demonstrates this purpose? a theoretical breakthrough would be a fundamentally new way of finding alice's private key mathematicians have been studying factoring for centuries, and modern factoring techniques are not significantly better than ancient techniques a more recent development is the so-called tempest attack, which aims to detect the electromagnetic signals emitted in a computer's display unit if scientists could build a quantum computer, it would be able to perform calculations with enormous speed mark this and return save and exit next submit

O. henry chooses specific words and phrases to point to the story’s historical setting

An unexpected celebration by having xavier call ava during ava's home birthday celebration, how does the author move the story forward? a. xavier's phone call gives ava an additional reason to hurry out. b. the phone call provides background information about the poison creeper movie. c. xavier's entrance into the story sheds light on ava's relationship with her parents. d. if not for xavier, ava would have been late for the movie. read this sentence from paragraph 5 of the passage. “we can go the back way around,” xavier said with practiced nonchalance, though he shot a nervous glance at his watch. which word has the most similar meaning to nonchalance in this sentence? a. coldness b. unconcern c. boldness d. tension