ABSTRACT
Each of the following riddles describes a punctuation mark. Can you guess what they are?
WHO AM I ?
Am I a curl?
Am I a squiggle?
Where will you find me?
At the end of a riddle.
LOOK AT ME!
I stand up straight and tall
And balance on a ball!
Shock! Horror! Surprise!
You won’t believe your eyes!
STOP HERE
I help you with your writing.
I make the meaning clear.
I’m small and round and useful.
I make you stop just here.
NIGHT HUNTER
Some think that I am blind by day.
At night my sharp eyes seek out prey.
I haunt the woodlands with my song.
I’m wise. And smaller creatures know I’m strong.
Who am I?
(John Kitching)SILENT …
Silent, I invade cities,
Blur edges, confuse travellers,
My thumb smudging the light.
I drift from rivers
To loiter in early morning fields,
Until constable Sun
Moves me on.
(John Cotton)