Bonny Barbara Allan

Ballads are narrative songs that are meant to be sung.

• True
• False

A refrain is

• lines repeated in a song or ballad
• when someone wants to be violent but follows the rules
• sounds repeated in a song
• when someone wants to tell a mean person bad things but stops

A ballad is organized into stanzas called

• couplets
• iambic pentameter
• quatrains
• tetrameter

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CCSS.RL.6.5

The rhyme scheme is usually ______

• the first and third lines of each stanza
• the second and fourth lines of each stanza
• there is no specific rhyme scheme

The ballads were sung by the upper classes because the lower classes were illiterate.

• True
• False

All of the following are themes of ballads EXCEPT

• revenge

• unrequited love

• living happily ever after

• dying for love

In "Barbara Allen," John Graeme is sick because

• he's in love with Barbara Allan

• he attended a drinking party

• Barbara Allen refused to come to him

• his messenger reached Barbara Allen too late

Barbara Allen snubs John Graeme because he

• loved someone else
• failed to toast her
• sent his man for her instead of coming himself
• went to a drinking party

What does Barbara Allen feel when she hears the death bells ringing for John?

• curious as to who her next boyfriend will be

• indifferent to his suffering

• wishes he had never lived

• sorrow and guilt

In "Barbara Allen," What does the phrase "make my bed soft and narrow" mean? 

• she is going to die
• she is really tired from her walk and needs a long nap 
• She will lose weight because she is so sad about John dying