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Select the traditional definition of a 'ballad' from the following options:
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- 1A long lyric poem that is serious in subject and treatment, elevated in style and elaborate in its stanzaic structure.
- 2A song transmitted orally, that tells a story.✓
- 3A poem written in alternating hexameter and pentameter lines to refer to the subject matter of change and loss.
- 4Any fairly short poem, consisting of the utterance by a single speaker, who expresses a state of mind or feeling.
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A song transmitted orally, that tells a story.
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