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assignment 2
folk ballad, ballad stanza, common meter, hymm meter
Question | Answer |
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3 types of ballads are part of universal tradition of | anonymous folk narratives, songs, which were trtold and revised over many generations |
folk ballad | expressed the interests and attitudes of the community as a whole, often at the expense of the upper class |
why are folk ballads also known as "public poetry"? | because they were either sung or recited to the group at large and not intended to be written down or distributed. (most illiterate) |
folk ballads "structural patterns", "formulaic devices" help to | aid the memory of both performer and audience. examples are repetition, stock phrases, dialogue rather than exposition. |
folk ballads: incremental repetition | the repeating of a stanza with the addition of new info that advances the story. |
what does the folk ballad typically focus on | highly dramatic episodes (usually tragic) which is often a climax of events that have occured earlier. |
how is the narrative revealed in folk ballads | in a succession of brief scenes, giving the effect of an exciting economy of action and event. rarely more than broad details of character, setting, or psychological motivation. |
ballad stanza | a quatrain of alternating lines of iambic tetremeter and trimeter. with a ryme scheme of abcb or abab |
the ballad stanza is a specific "form" of poetry characterized by | pattern, meter, and ryme scheme. the folk ballad itself is thought of belonging to a genre of poetry in that is has no specific form. |