THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
PAUL REVERE BIOGRAPHY FACTS QUOTES
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What is the exposition of the poem?
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“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 still alive who remembers that famous day and year.”
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Paul Revere rode through a village. He leaves the town and enters the town of Medford at midnight. He rode into Lexington at one, and it was two when he rode into Concord.
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“Blowing over the meadows brown. And one was safe and asleep in his bed, who at the bridge would be first to fall, who that day would be lying dead, pierced by a british musket-ball.”
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The purpose of Paul Revere’s midnight ride, as you may recall from your high school history class, was to race to Concord to warn Patriots Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops-700 of them-were marching to Concord to arrest them. True, warning Adams and Hancock triggered Revere’s ride from Boston.
Detailed explanation-2: -Climax: Paul Revere makes his famous midnight ride and announces that the Regulars are on their way to attack. Falling Action: The British Regulars come and attack.
Detailed explanation-3: -"Paul Revere’s Ride, ” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, is an example of a narrative poem.
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