If you're referring to Daisy from the Great Gatsby, she is contradictory because she might behave like she is a rich trophy wife whose job is to just be beautiful, but it turns out that she is actually just a woman that is trapped by the society. She would gladly be with Gatsby, but the society being oppressive as it is making her conform.
But you didn't mention any story...
Answer:
The author wants to keep the reader or listener engaged is the correct answer.
Explanation:
The correct answer is plaintive ballad and mourning.
Elegiac broadside itself is a type of ballad which has a plaintive feel and which is mournful.
It is a poetry which tells the story of a life which is being lost. An elegiac broadside is being got from mournful feeling of a poetry.
If a story is being taught like a ballad, it is being recited for a person who has died.
The broadside is the paper which contains the announcements, the public information and the elegies.
A famous example of an elegiac broadside is the elegy.
Clarifier/elaborator because this person could help other people understand different viewpoints by clarifying them and making it easier.