Select all that apply. Select the main characteristics of a ballad.

five lines of poetry
deals with romantic love and death
contains riddles
couplet
many scenes and characters
centered around one scene
uses dialogue
shaped like a picture
deals with heroic deeds
clever and funny
action is swift

It is a song that tells a story.

The beginning is often surprising.

Its language is simple.

It concentrates on a single episode.

The theme is often tragic & sad.

The story is told through dialogue & action.

It lacks specific detail.

It has a surprising ending.

It includes some sort of repeated lines.

It has rarely moral.

It has 4-line stanzas, the first & third lines have four stresses & fourth line has three stresses.

It has an orientation, complication & resolution.

It can have a question & answer format. One stanza presents the question & the next stanza answers the question.

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Explanation:

the answer is:

magna carta

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