Definition:
Raising questions and answering them.
Examples:
- "Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."
(Benjamin Franklin) - "To be middle-aged is to be--well, what is it? It is to have hope without expectation, courage without strength, desire without the fire."
(H.L. Mencken) - "What makes a king out of a slave? Courage! What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage! What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the Sphinx the Seventh Wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage!"
(The Cowardly Lion in 1939 film version of The Wizard of Oz) - "You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land, and air, with all our might and all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalog of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror; victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival."
(Winston Churchill, 13 May 1940) - "In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed--but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
(Orson Welles as Harry Lime in The Third Man, 1949) - "What's the difference between neurotic and eccentric? How much money you make."
(Jason Love) - "What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured."
(Kurt Vonnegut)
Pronunciation: hi-PAH-for-uh
Also Known As: anthypophora, apocrisis, rogatio, subjectio
