Active words are used when the person speaking them is doing the action I.E I threw the ball.
Passive is the opposite. It is used when the subject of the sentence has had something happen to it by someone or something else.
Maxi or mega, I think maxi is more direct though
The ballad convention that Dudley Randall uses in "Ballad of Birmingham" is using an innocent questioner and a wise respondent.
Where is the excerpt and the sentences?
