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Riddles

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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026169

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Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

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LC Genre/Form Terms - General

Form

Riddles

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Conundrums
Enigmas

Broader Terms

Puzzles and games

Narrower Terms

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Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

Riddles

Sources

found: Genre terms : a thesaurus for use in rare book and special collections cataloging, via WWW, July 31, 2014(Riddles. BT Puzzles)

found: Art & architecture thesaurus online, July 31, 2014(riddles (document genres). Puzzling questions or statements worded so as to exercise one's ingenuity in answering or discovering their hidden meaning. BT <word and number puzzles and games>)

found: Görlach, M. An alphabetical list of English text types, in Text types and the history of English, c2004:p. 72 (riddle)

found: LCSH, Nov. 18, 2014(Riddles. UF Conundrums; Enigmas. BT Amusements; Literary recreations; Questions and answers; Wit and humor. RT Charades; Puzzles)

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2014-12-01: new

2015-01-28: revised

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