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A riddle is a statement, question or phrase having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved. Riddles are of two types: enigmas, which are problems generally expressed in metaphorical or allegorical language that require ingenuity and careful thinking for their solution, and conundra, which are questions relying for their effects on punning in either the question or the ...
Frances Riddle (born in Raleigh, North Carolina. Grew up in Houston, TX.) [1] is an American-born literary translator, specializing in the translation of contemporary Latin American literature into English. She has a BA in Spanish Language and Literature from Louisiana State University and an MA in Translation Studies from the University of ...
In some cases, fans have created their own unofficial translations, either ahead of a licensed translation or when a licensed translation is unavailable. Issues arising in the translation of Harry Potter include cultural references, riddles, anticipating future plot points, and Rowling's creative names for characters and other elements in the ...
The Riddle was written in Verona at the end of the eighth century or beginning of the ninth on a page of a preexisting liturgical text, [5] the Verona Orational (codex LXXXIX (89) of the Biblioteca Capitolare di Verona). The parchment is a Mozarabic (i.e. Visigothic) oration by the Spanish Christian Church, probably written in Toledo.
Nothing more is known of Symphosius's life than what can be gleaned from the riddles themselves: even his name is clearly 'a joking pseudonym, meaning “party boy” or the like'. [2] Proposed dates of composition have ranged from the third century [ 3 ] to the sixth. [ 4 ]
Exeter Book Riddle 7 (according to the numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records) [1] is one of the Old English riddles found in the later tenth-century Exeter Book, in this case on folio 103r. The solution is believed to be 'swan' and the riddle is noted as being one of the Old English riddles whose solution is most widely agreed on. [ 2 ]
A riddle joke, joke riddle, pseudo-joke or conundrum is a riddle that does not expect the asked person to know the answer, but rather constitutes a set-up to the humorous punch line of the joke. [1] It is one of the four major types of riddles, according to Nigel F. Barley. [2]
Riddles are an internationally widespread feature of oral literatures and scholars have not doubted that they were traditional to Old English culture. [1] But the history of riddles as a literary genre in England seems to be rooted in an influential collection of late Antique Latin riddles, possibly from north Africa, attributed to a poet called Symphosius, whose work English scholars emulated ...