Ballad: A short narrative poem, written to be sung. They tell of love, death, the supernatural, or a combination of these. A characteristic of the ballad is incremental repetition or variation. Incremental variation repeats one or more lines with small but significant variations that advance the action.
Name[edit] The word zuppa in Italian cuisine refers to both sweet and savoury dishes. It comes from the verb inzuppare which means to dunk. As the sponge cake or Lady fingers are dipped in liqueur the dish is called Zuppa.
This article is about the dessert. For the building in Rome colloquially named after the dessert, see Altare della Patria. Zuppa Inglese (pronounced [Ëtsuppa iÅËÉ¡leËse]; Italian for English soup) is an Italian dessert layering custard and sponge cake, perhaps derived from trifle.