Which statement is not true of ballads?

a.
a ballad often features a refrain.

b.
a ballad tells a story about the deeds of heroes.

c.
most ballads are written in four- to six-line stanzas.

d.
many ballads have regular rhythms and rhyme schemes.

The statement which is not true about of ballads is option B.

A ballad tells a story about the deeds of heroes.  

A ballad  is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of the British Isles from the later medieval period until the 19th century.

Ballads often consists on 13 lines with an ABABBCBC form, consisting of couplets (two lines) of rhymed verse, each of 14 syllables. Another common form is ABAB or ABCB repeated, in alternating 8 and 6 syllable lines.

the answer is:

d. a story that frightened readers so much they would become suspicious of their surroundings

frankenstein is one of the terror novels wrote by the writers in a sort of bet, lord byron challenged them all to write a ghost story, and the story came to mary shelley in a dream, she wanted to conect with the fears of her society, fears of technology and changes, and she wanted readers to look around, freightened.

explanation:

mark brainliest and have a great day!

in the sonnet 116 written by william shakespeare we can analyze the symbolism and say that he reuses the idea of love like a guiding star for the sailor.

reading through the poem we find out that in the line 7 there is a metaphor for the lover that is heading through the life events by love itself .