Ballad
Assignment: Write a ballad of an important story in your own life...about YOU!
Must be at least: 3 stanzas, 4 lines each.
A poem that tells a story! A ballad has a theme or lesson learned, and follow a clear plot line: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution.
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- must have rhythm!
- Rhyme Scheme: Stanzas consist of 4 lines with the rhyme scheme ABAB
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