Have fun writing your ballad. Gather information (choose/decide an idea/theme), organise your materials under characters and story and then write. Revise and edit your ballad to make it entertaining. Use the following guidelines to write your ballad.
• Purpose of writing the ballad: to entertain and interest
• To whom I am writing: decide for whom you are writing
• How should I structure features? :
– Tell a simple narrative
– A few major characters
– A strong rhythm and rhyme
– May have a refrain (single or two line(s) repeated often)
– Divide into verses
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NCERT Solutions provides a thorough understanding of the events occurring in the chapter is necessary for the students in order to obtain in-depth knowledge. Mere reading the chapter would not help, as regular learning and understanding of the actual meaning is very important. For this reason, students have to search for the best study material which satisfies all their needs. We at BYJU’S have a set of faculty experienced in the respective subjects providing chapter-wise and exercise-wise solutions for the students. NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English are available here in PDF format. The exact theme of the prose and poem present in the NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English Chapter 9 is given here.
Madam Rides the Bus (Prose)This story is about a sensitive eight-year-old girl, Valliammai and her first bus journey into the world outside her village. At a very young age, she got an understanding of the mystery of life and death. She would often stand in the front doorway of her house and watch all that was happening in the street outside. She found the outside world very charming and fascinating, yet mysterious and wanted to explore it by herself. She took a bus trip to visit the town and met different kinds of passengers on the bus. On her return trip, she saw the unpleasant sight of an injured cow by the roadside, which made her very upset. She returned home safely, and interestingly, none of her family members knew of her adventurous bus journey.
The Tale of Custard the Dragon (Poem)This poem is a beautiful ballad composed by Ogden Nash. The characters of the poem include Belinda, a young girl who lives in her little white house along with her pets – a little black kitten, Ink; a little grey mouse, Blink; a little yellow dog, Mustard; a little pet dragon, Custard and a little red wagon. Belinda and her other pets would often tease Custard for his cowardice and make fun of him. In the end, when a pirate attacked the house, it was Custard, the dragon, who saved everyone with his heroism and courage.