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Module 4 Lesson 2

The document compares and contrasts the literary forms of epics and ballads. It states that both developed as forms of popular entertainment involving storytelling and music. Both revolve around tales of adventure, romance, and heroes. However, epics use an elevated style of language and focus on huge settings and lengthy time spans to impress audiences, while ballads use simple, colloquial language to tell a short story in verse centered around a single episode through dialogue.

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Module 4 Lesson 2

The document compares and contrasts the literary forms of epics and ballads. It states that both developed as forms of popular entertainment involving storytelling and music. Both revolve around tales of adventure, romance, and heroes. However, epics use an elevated style of language and focus on huge settings and lengthy time spans to impress audiences, while ballads use simple, colloquial language to tell a short story in verse centered around a single episode through dialogue.

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#1 Epic Vs. Ballad – Compare and contrast epic and ballad.

Discuss its similarity and difference in no


more than three sentences.

EPIC    BALLAD
-A long narrative poem -A short story in verse
-Use of elevated style of -Simple colloquial language
language – sublime words are Both of them developed as
– common words used in day to
used to describe events forms of day life
popular entertainment, and
-Performed as oral poetry -The story is mainly told
were performed to
-Use huge settings and lengthy through dialogues
audience often with the
time spans -Dwells upon only on one
accompaniment of music.
-Use of a certain culture, race, Both revolved around tales of particular episode of the story
nation or a religious group on adventure romance, and -Universal appeal
whose victory and failure
featured heroes of grand – touches upon a specific
depends on the whole nation or
proportions. subject; which is not personal,
on a certain group
or about the country yet rather
-Use of exaggeration to make an deals with  the whole humanity
impression on the audience

#2Recall a ballad. Extract a stanza/line that you like the most and discuss its message.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
It is an ancient Mariner,
And he stoppeth one of three.
‘By thy long grey beard and glittering eye,
Now wherefore stopp’st thou me?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's classic epic poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is an
outstanding example of a ballad. The following snippet is the opening stanza of the entire poem,
and it includes some traditional ballad elements, such as the four-line quatrain and the ABCB
rhyme pattern. The poem depicts the narrative of an elderly sailor who has returned from his
voyage and want to convey the horrifying experiences he has had on the high seas.
#3Recall one epic that you have encountered in your literature classes before. What makes you
remember the story?
Agyu: Mindanao's Ilianon Epic (of the Manobos of North Cotabato). "Agyu" is a Manobo folk
hero who is the subject of the epic "Agyu" of northern and central Mindanao. It is 1,279 lines
long and narrates seven distinct episodes in the life of the main hero, Agyu: (first) the killing of
the Moro datu by Kuyasu because of the beeswax incident; second, the battle with the Moro who
attacked them in retaliation for the killing of their datu; third, Agyu's leading his people to
another country where he found beehives and Mungan's miraculous healing; fourth, his Agyu's
youngest son, a little boy, defeats the enemy and rejects a marriage proposal from the grateful
daughter of the defeated datu; her following Agyu to his home and their marriage; and seventh,
the successful repulsion of invaders by Agyu's youngest son.

Interpret the following lines. What do you think is the motive of the characters uttering such lines?  
1. “By this tree I shall know your fate from the time you depart from here, for if you live, it will
live; but if you die, it will die also.” 
- They would know what would happen to him if he left that spot via the tree.

2. "No, let us seek my son. Even though we must enter the harbor where the Spaniards are, let
us continue our search." 

- The anchors were raised at his direction, and they proceeded into the bay where the
Spanish navy waited.

3. “I will go and the land shall be avenged.” 

- It sounded like fervor and excitement to be proud of his bravery.

4. "You, my friends, decide whether or not I shall give the hand of my daughter to Bantugan in
marriage."

- He sought counsel from all present, particularly his friends, on whether he should allow
his daughter to marry Bantugan.

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