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Medieval Ballads

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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Medieval Ballads

  • Narrative poem
  • Long
  • Oral tradition
  • Has 4 line stanzas
  • Uses repetition
  • uses superstition
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Medeival Ballad or folk ballad

  • Dialogue
  • Dialect
  • may have a refrain or chorus
  • The dead might talk
  • different versions because of the oral tradition
  • symbols
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traditional symbols that everyone undertood

  • long, narrow bed = the grave
  • red = blood
  • white=purity
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literary ballad

  • Written down
  • only one version
  • known author
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Janice Ferguson