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MIAJA DE LA PENA, María Teresa. La adivinanza: Sentido y pervivencia. Acta poét [online]. 2005, vol.26, n.1-2, pp.443-463. ISSN 2448-735X.

For centuries riddles have been part of lyric tradition in most cultures. They can easily adapt to popular taste. Riddles bring together both imagination and poetry in a mental game based on rhetorical figures, as well as lexical and metrical resources. Verbal games, enclosed in an apparently simple self contained structure, imply a mental challenge.