Ballad and Tale

Ballad

Ballad noun - A short musical composition for the human voice often with instrumental accompaniment.

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Tale and ballad are semantically related. in story topic. In some cases you can use "Tale" instead a noun "Ballad", when it comes to topics like poem.

Nearby Words: balladry, ballade

Tale

Tale noun - A rumor or report of a personal or sensational nature.

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Antonyms for Tale

Ballad and tale are semantically related. You can use "Ballad" instead a noun "Tale".

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How words are described

old	old ballad	old tale
long	long ballad	long tale
typical	typical ballad	typical tale
short	short ballad	short tale
Other adjectives: standard, original, simple, romantic, popular, serious, sad, little, dark, depressing, tragic, beautiful, famous, straightforward, touching, dramatic, traditional, fictional, epic, uplifting, bittersweet.

Both words in one sentence

The standard fairy tale plot of a hero overcoming impossible quests to marry a princess gets subverted in Friedrich Schiller's ballad The Diver.

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Tam Lin and Janet marry.Joseph Jacobs rewrote the ballad into a prose fairy tale, "Tamlane", published in his 1894 More English Fairy Tales.

Source: Literature / Tam Lin
Reconstruction: The novel is a version of the English ballad "Tam Lin", which the characters initially dismiss as a fairy tale, in which the magical and superstitious elements are explained by the doings of a pagan cult.

Source: Literature / The Perilous Gard