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THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783

PAUL REVERE BIOGRAPHY FACTS QUOTES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Longfellow’s poem was written in the year 1860. Is the poem a first hand account or second hand account of the events that took place during the ride? Remember a first hand account is told from the Point of View of someone who was there, a second hand account is retold from the Point of View who someone who wasn’t there.
A
First Hand Account
B
Second Hand Account
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -"Paul Revere’s Ride” is an 1860 poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that commemorates the actions of American patriot Paul Revere on April 18, 1775, although with significant inaccuracies. It was first published in the January 1861 issue of The Atlantic Monthly.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Message. Longfellow wrote “Paul Revere’s Ride” in 1860, in the midst of a national crisis that would break out into war a year later.

Detailed explanation-3: -"Paul Revere’s Ride, ” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, is an example of a narrative poem. True.

Detailed explanation-4: -By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year.

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