THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
PAUL REVERE BIOGRAPHY FACTS QUOTES
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Simile
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Metaphor
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Personification
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Alliteration
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Detailed explanation-1: -“Paul Revere’s Ride” has many examples of figurative language, including personification, simile, and metaphor.
Detailed explanation-2: -The “British regulars” fired but then fled because the farmers were prepared for them. They were chased out across the fields pursued by fighters who only paused to “fire and load”.
Detailed explanation-3: -Simile: Across the moon LIKE a prison bar; On the rising tide LIKE a bridge of boats; Of the North Church tower AS a signal light.
Detailed explanation-4: -“Paul Revere’s Ride” is less a poem about the Revolutionary War than about the impending Civil War-and about the conflict over slavery that caused it. That meaning, though, has been almost entirely forgotten. Longfellow, a passionately private man, was, just as passionately and privately, an abolitionist.