THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
PAUL REVERE BIOGRAPHY FACTS QUOTES
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That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light,
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The fate of a nation was riding that night;
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Lines 79-80 And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight, Kindled the land into flame with its heat. That spark from the horse’s hooves is the spark of revolution and freedom, and it starts a fire. Well, not really, but it gets the folks in the countryside riled up and ready to fight.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -In line 78, what does the speaker mean by ‘the fate of a nation was riding that night?’ Revere’s ride will determine the nation’s destiny. Alerting the colonists that the British were coming meant that they would have time to organize a defense and win their independence. The poem says that Revere rode in to Concord.