A riddles is a statement or question or phrase having a double or veiled meaning, riddles 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, which are questions relying for their effects on punning in either the question or the answer.
Riddles occur extensively in old english poetry, and also in the old norse literature of the ancient edda and the skalds. Riddles thus have a distinguished literary ancestry, although the contemporary sort of conundrum that passes under the name of riddle may not make this obvious.
In the anglo saxon world, the wis had wisdom due to their wit their ability to conciliate and mediate by maintaining multiple perspectives, which has degenerated into a species of comedy, but was not always a mere laughing matter. This wit was taught with a form of oral tradition called the riddle, a collection of which were bound, along with various other gnomic verses and maxims ca. and deposited in exeter cathedral in the eleventh century, one of the most important collection of old english manuscripts which has survived.
The riddles in this book vary in significance from childish rhymes and ribald innuendo, to some particularly interesting insights into the pre christian thought world of our archaic linguistic ancestors.
An answer is a reply to a question or is a solution, or a response that is relevant to the said question.
In law, an answer was originally a solemn assertion in opposition to some one or something, and thus generally any counter statement or defense, a reply to a question or objection, or a correct solution of a problem.
In the common law, an answer is the first pleading by a defendant, usually filed and served upon the plaintiff within a certain strict time limit after a civil complaint or criminal information, answers may have been preceded by an optional pre answer motion to dismiss if such a motion is unsuccessful, the defendant must file an answer to the complaint or risk an adverse default judgment.
The answer establishes which allegations set forth by the complaining party will be contested by the defendant, and states all the defendant defenses, thus establishing the nature and parameters of the controversy to be decided by the court.
all have being representing the entire or total number, amount, or quantity, all the windows are open. Deal all the cards.
The construction all that is used informally in questions and negative sentences to mean to the degree expected. In the 1960s, the usage panel rejected its use, but evidently resistance to all that is crumbling.
Seventy two percent of the panel now finds the construction acceptable in the sentence the movie is not all that interesting. Sentences of the form all are not may be ambiguous, all of the departments did not file a report may mean that some departments did not file, or that none did.
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