All 4 Uses of
ballad
in
The Idiot
- Thanks to this change of position, he was able to listen to the ballad with far less embarrassment than before.†
Chpt 2.7 *
- All the affectation of manner which she had displayed at the beginning disappeared as the ballad proceeded.†
Chpt 2.7
- That it was a jest there was no doubt whatever; he knew that well enough, and had good reason, too, for his conviction; for during her recitation of the ballad Aglaya had deliberately changed the letters A. N. B. into N. P. B. He was quite sure she had not done this by accident, and that his ears had not deceived him.†
Chpt 2.7
- Yet Aglaya had brought out these letters N. P. B. not only without the slightest appearance of irony, or even any particular accentuation, but with so even and unbroken an appearance of seriousness that assuredly anyone might have supposed that these initials were the original ones written in the ballad.†
Chpt 2.7
Definition:
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(ballad) a song (or poem) that tells a story