In this lesson, students will learn how to recognize the features of limerick poetry. A ballad is a type of poem that tells a story and was traditionally set to music.
1. BALLAD A POEM OR SONG NARRATING A STORY IN SHORT STANZAS .
2. BALLAD A typical ballad consists of stanzas that contain a quatrain or four poetical lines.
3. BALLAD The meter or rhythm of each line is usually iambic (one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable) with eight or six syllables in a
4. BALLAD Like any poem, some ballads follow this form and some don't, but almost all ballads are narrative, which means
5. RHYME A word agreeing with another in sound in the poem Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
6. END RHYME The rhyming of the final syllables of a 'In Flanders fields the poppies blow line. Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly. Scarce heard amid the guns below.'
7. RHYME SCHEME The pattern of end rhymes in stanzas. Bid me to weep, and I will weep,(A) While I have eyes to see; (B) And having none, yet I will
8. DRAMATIC IRONY When the audience or reader knows something the characters do not.
9. ALLITERATION The repetition of the beginning sounds of words But a better butter makes a batter better.