Riddle

A riddle is a type of poetry that describes something without actually naming what it
is, leaving the reader to guess. It is a light hearted type of poetry which involves the
reader. Riddles can be about anything, from riddles about animals to riddle about
objects. There are no rules on how to structure a riddle poem, a riddle can be funny
or it can rhyme, it depends on the person writing the riddle.

Example :
1. It's an animal. It's an orange black. It has stripes. It has four paws. It lives in the
jungle. What is it? It is a tiger.
2. I have three eyes, all in a row. When the red one opens, all freeze. I am traffic light.
3. Example of Rhyming Riddle
I come in different style.
I can help you walk for miles.
Come in pair
I'm something what you wear
With heels I'm glam
CAn you guest what I am?
I am a shoes.

Social Function of Riddle

A riddle is a statement, question, or phrase that has a double meaning. It is an

amusing game for children and adults. Today riddle aren't used as much as they were
in ancient times, but they remain a definite way to get your mind working.

 When someone uses a riddle, it can be a thought provoking challange to figure it out on your
own, or it can be a funny comment that makes you laugh. Riddles can be great brain busters or
conversation starters to get you think. Riddle games have been played since times, and are still
being played today.

 Riddles have significant roles. They include roles that may be described as cultural,
educative, intelectual, ideological, cosmological, and political. Riddles teach logic about the social
and cultural environment, social norms, history, biology, and much more.

 Riddles can help in memory training for children as they are expected and encourage to
remember the correct answers to the riddles. Riddles also can help to introduce a variety of
vocabolaries. They also provide opportunities to play phonetic, morphological, grammatical, and
semantic games as they exhibit a variety of linguistic expressions and structure.
In conclusion, riddles have a role in the education of communities and in development
of analytical thinking lies the fact that the answer to the riddle is already known to the
audience.

Structure of Riddle

Riddle have no form set. Riddles can be a question with a quick witty answer. They can
be just a sentence that makes you have a sudden realization. We can also create
riddles from words that rhytme with a word in a riddle's answer, other word and
phrases that use the funny part of an answer.

Characteristic of Riddle

A riddle is a verbal puzzle, an enigmatic statement, description, or question posed by

one person to another, or to a group, who have to guess the answer. We use the term

loosely for more than one kind of puzzle. However, the riddle proper relies on

imagery for its effects; often quite poetic imagery. Some riddles use pronoun "i" even

though the word that should be guessed is a thing. For example : "If you have me, you

won't to share me. If you share me, you haven't got me. What am i?" The answer is "a

secret".