1. The optative mood is an archaic or poetic variant of the imperative mood that expresses hopes or wishes , and is not used in the normal language .
2. The optative mood is an archaic or poetic variant of the imperative mood that expresses hopes or wishes . It is not used in normal language .

Select your answer from the options. Are these two sentences paraphrases of each other?
(a). no (b). yes...I think the answer is
(b).