1. “GET UP AND BAR THE DOOR”
A BALLAD IN MIDDLE ENGLISH

2. a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.
Ballad
a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.

3. Middle English ballads were meant to be sung…

4. Ballad
A typical ballad consists of stanzas that contain a quatrain or four poetical lines.

5. Quatrains: A visual representation

6. Ballad
The meter or rhythm of each line is usually iambic (one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable) with eight or six syllables in a line.

7. / means stressed u means unstressed

8. ballad
Like any poem, some ballads follow this form and some don't, but almost all ballads are narrative, which means they tell a story.

9. Narrative = story time!

10. A word agreeing with another in sound in the poem
Rhyme
A word agreeing with another in sound in the poem
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

11. The rhyming of the final syllables of a line.
End rhyme
The rhyming of the final syllables of a line.
'In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly.
Scarce heard amid the guns below.'

12. The pattern of end rhymes in stanzas.
Rhyme Scheme
The pattern of end rhymes in stanzas.
Bid me to weep, and I will weep,(A)
While I have eyes to see; (B)
And having none, yet I will keep (A)
A heart to weep for thee.(B)

13. The repetition of the beginning sounds of words
Alliteration
The repetition of the beginning sounds of words
But a better butter makes a batter better.

14. “Get Up and Bar the Door”
Now returning…
“Get Up and Bar the Door”
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15. How it was meant to be heard

16. STILL CONFUSED?
Watch the student dramatization of “Get Up and Bar the Door”