THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
PAUL REVERE BIOGRAPHY FACTS QUOTES
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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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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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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Setting: April 18, 1775, in Massachusetts Characters: Paul Revere, Revere’s friend Plot-Rising Action Event: Revere tells his friend to hang a lantern if the British march.
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 tells the story of Paul Revere and his historic ride to warn the town that the British soldiers were coming. It details Revere making the plan with the other soldier and continues through his ride and the resulting interaction between the British and American soldiers.
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.