Question

APPRECIATION QUESTIONS: 5x2=10
16. "sighing like a furnace with a woeful ballad”
a) Who is sighing like a furnace ?
b) What is a ballad ?
17. "a gray haboon sits like a ctotuo​

Answer 1

Answer:

(A) So, “sighing like a furnace” means that a young man has fallen deeply and madly in love with his lady.

(B) A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French chanson balladée or ballade, which were originally "dance songs". Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of Britain and Ireland from the later medieval period until the 19th