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    This document defines and describes the characteristics of ballads. Ballads typically tell stories in four line stanzas with eight syllables per line and rhyming in the second and fourth lines. They use simple, understandable language to narrate stories for general audiences rather than emphasize the speaker's emotions through lyrical language. Ballads also tend to have a traditional format of four lines rhymed abcd or abab. An example ballad provided is a four line poem about a puppy that got hit by a lorry.

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    This document defines and describes the characteristics of ballads. Ballads typically tell stories in four line stanzas with eight syllables per line and rhyming in the second and fourth lines. They use simple, understandable language to narrate stories for general audiences rather than emphasize the speaker's emotions through lyrical language. Ballads also tend to have a traditional format of four lines rhymed abcd or abab. An example ballad provided is a four line poem about a puppy that got hit by a lorry.

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    Ballads: Alvin Chan, Nur Safawanie, Hasfiyah, Fawwaz

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    Alvin Isaac Chan
    This document defines and describes the characteristics of ballads. Ballads typically tell stories in four line stanzas with eight syllables per line and rhyming in the second and fourth lines. They use simple, understandable language to narrate stories for general audiences rather than emphasize the speaker's emotions through lyrical language. Ballads also tend to have a traditional format of four lines rhymed abcd or abab. An example ballad provided is a four line poem about a puppy that got hit by a lorry.

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    BALLADS

    Group members:
    Alvin Chan, Nur Safawanie,
    Hasfiyah,Fawwaz

    BALLADS

    Ballads contains four lines, each with eight


    syllables and with the second and fourth
    lines rhyming.

    Characteristics that identify a ballad is


    simple language.

    Ballads feature language that people can


    understand without specialist training or
    repeated readings.

    Ballads tend to be narrative poems, poems


    that tell stories, as opposed to lyric poems,
    which emphasize the emotions of the
    speakers

    The traditional ballad stanza consists of four


    lines, rhymed abcd (or sometimes abab: the
    key is that the second and fourth lines
    rhyme).

    THE LITTLE PUPPY: A TRAGIC


    STORY
    My daddy bought me a puppy
    We love him so much that it
    hurts
    One day it got hit by lorry
    He will always be in our
    hearts

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