Ballads

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Ballads

• A Glimpse of Mans Universal Emotions
• March 18, 2003

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Ballads tell stories.

• Plot (Concrete Subject)
• Characters
• Setting
• Conflict
• Abstract Subject

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Plot

• Introduces characters and setting
• Problem is introduced
• Problem is complicated
• Problem is solved
• Questions are answered

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Poetry

• Rhythm
• Rhyme
• Ballad Stanza
• Refrain

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Ballad Stanza

• A stanza with 4 lines
• A rhythm pattern of 4343 (stressed syllables per
  line)
• A rhyme scheme of ABCB (2nd and 4th lines rhyme
• The wind so cold blew south and north,
• And blew onto the floor.
• Quoth our goodman to our goodwife,
• Get up and bar the door.

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Literary Devices

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Personification
• Dialect
• Repetition

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Similes

• A comparison of two unlike things, using like or
  as, in order to show one way theyre alike
• Her smile was as intriguing as the smile on the
  Cheshire cat.

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Metaphors

• A comparison of two unlike things, not using like
  or as, in order to show one way theyre alike
• She smiled her Cheshire cat smile.

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Hyperbole

• Extreme exaggeration
• You could see his smile a mile away.

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Personification

• Giving non-human things human characteristics
• The cat smiled knowingly at me. I see, he said.

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Dialect

• The way a language changes from region to region
• I say, old chap, said the man to the Cheshire
  cat, do you perchance know the way to the
  croquet game?
• See if you can remember these terms by going to
  http//www.angelfire.com/sc3/kingcesily/interactiv
  e.htm
• and trying the quiz.