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The Twa Corbies
Characteristics of a ballad
Theories of origin: Ballad
Ballads pt.1
Ballads pt. 2
100
The color of the knights eyes
What is blue?
100
Detached, anonymous author
What is impersonal?
100
Popular folk songs
What is communal?
100
Narrative poem, simple and short
What is a ballad?
100
Four line stanza: distinct rhyme and meter
What is simple verse form?
200
The corbies view the dead body
what is a meal?
200
To the point
What is concentrated?
200
Village historian
What is journalistic?
200
Ballads are expressions of __________ genius
What is unsophisticated?
200
Mood or dominant feeling
What is atmosphere?
300
she left the knight's dead body
what is the Knight's wife?
300
Starts and stays in the action
What is dramatic?
300
Court entertainer
What is minstrel?
300
Reflect concerns of time and place but also express _____
What is universality?
300
General description of overall mood
What is tone?
400
The two animals that was with the dead man
What is the hawk and the hound?
400
Understatements and bizarre contrasts
What is ironic?
400
Religious instruction
What is clerical?
400
Ballads came from ______ borderlands and referred to events of late medieval times
What is scottish?
400
Subject matter: political, domestic, or romantic_____
What is injustice?
500
The feeling that the speaker develops during the ballad
What is pity?
500
Chant-like repetition
What is incanatory?
500
Local poets works passed on orally
What is folk poet?
500
Ballads were social criticism from ______ man
What is common?
500
These characteristics are used purposefully to generate____ and reinforce____
What is atmosphere and tone?