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THE MEDIEVAL BALLAD - Coggle Diagram
THE MEDIEVAL BALLAD
WHERE AND WHEN
throughout the Enlgish-speaking world
Different places
Different times
IT TELLS
A dramatic story
as a series of rapid flashes
with no moral aim
Descrpition of
Real characters
Supernatural creatures
ex. fairie, witches, ghosts
HOW
The language is very simple
There is a mixture of dialogue and narration
Narrators do not
speak in first person
cooment on their emotional reaction to the story
CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO SPECIFIC THEMES
Border ballads
about the rivalry between the English and the Sottish people
Ballads of love
and also domestic tragedy
Ballads of magic
there are farires, ghosts, transformation
Ballads of outlaws
with the cycle of Robin Hood
STRUCTURE
A four-line stanza
often rhyming ACBC
A refrain
a repeated or group of lines