All 3 Uses
ballad
in
Wuthering Heights
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- Sit quite still and don't talk: but you may sing a song, if you can sing; or you may say a nice long interesting ballad — one of those you promised to teach me; or a story.†
p. 176.1
- I'd rather have a ballad, though: begin.'†
p. 176.1 *
- 'And listen,' she continued, provokingly, commencing a verse of an old ballad in the same fashion.†
p. 219.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(ballad) a song (or poem) that tells a story or expresses strong feelings -- typically slow in tempo
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)