THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
PAUL REVERE BIOGRAPHY FACTS QUOTES
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soldiers marching together to their boats
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soldiers using their arms and legs to swim
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people measuring the distance between places
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people stomping to get the attention of others
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Detailed explanation-1: -Personification: Longfellow conveys an example of personification in the phrase “The watchful night-wind, as it went creeping from tent to tent, and seeming to whisper, All is well!” (stanza 6).
Detailed explanation-2: -The first poem, “Paul Revere’s Ride, ” became a national favourite. Written in anapestic tetrameter meant to suggest the galloping of a horse, this folk ballad recalls a hero of the American Revolution and his famous “midnight ride” to warn the Americans about the impending British raid on Concord, Massachusetts.
Detailed explanation-3: -Stanza Four The narrative of ‘Paul Revere’s Ride’ progresses smoothly and clearly into the fourth stanza. Here, the speaker describes how Revere’s friend climbed up the tower of the church just as he said he would. He “startled the pigeons from their perch” and made it up into the rafters.
Detailed explanation-4: -"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.