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It may seem extraordinary today but just less than 2000 years ago, many people throughout Europe, Africa and the Americas saw nothing wrong in slavery. This term refers to a condition in which individuals are owned by others and for them are forced to work; it is also called “chattel slavery”, so named because people are treated as the chattel (personal property) of the owner and are bought or sold as commodities…

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Giada Floris, 5ª A Linguistico 2017-18

Ballads were originally written to accompany dances, and so were composed in couplets with refrains. Most northen and west European ballads are written in ballad stanzas or quatrains (four-line stanzas) of alternating lines of iambic tetrameter (eight syllables) and iambic trimeter (six syllables), known as ballad meter.

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Chiara Colombu, 5ª A Linguistico 2017-18