Ballads

A ballad is a type of

• ball

• poem

• novel

• phone message

Banjo Paterson wrote ballads about

• transport

• Australian sport

• playing the banjo

• Australian way of life

A simile compares two things using the words "like' and "as"

• True

• False

A metaphor is a word that describes an action

• True

• False

Which word is an onomatopoeia

• doorknob

• running

• clang

• long

Ballads do not have a rhyming pattern

• True

• False

Different language features are used to help tell a story

• True

• False

Ballads were first

(a)  

Ballads often have a repeated verse called a

• rain

• reverse

• refrain

• repeat

Which word rhymes with ballad

• ball

• salad

• cold

• reward