I'd say
1. Alonzo went to the music festival
2. Carmen went to the same music festival
3. Alonzo met Carmen at the music festival
(if that doesn't sound right it's probably the food ad thingy)
ask a question.. lets say ur writing about the new iphone ask; Do you like the new i-phone, what do you think about it?
Ballad poems are classified as a narrative.