What Type of Figurative Language?
"The watchful night-wind, as it went;
Creeping along from tent to tent,
And seeming to whisper, "All is well!"
What is personification
They are "marching down to their boats on the shore."
Who are the grenadiers?
Identify the protagonist.
Who is Paul Revere?
Paul Revere rowed with "muffled oar...to the Charlestown shore" for this reason.
What is that he did not want to be heard?
Paul Revere and his friend are alike in this way.
What is they were both rebels?
or
They both were brave.
"A phantom ship, with each mast and spar;
Across the moon like a prison bar"
What is a simile.
Identify the antagonist.
Who are the British?
"One if by land..." refers to?
What is one lantern will be the signal if the British will attack over land?
It is the most likely reason that the author wrote this poem.
What is to entertain readers with a tale about a patriot?
"muster of men"
-"masses and moving shapes of shade"
-"hurry of hoofs"
-"and the spark struck out by that steed"
-"midnight message"
What is alliteration?
It is what Paul Revere's friend does before climbing to the belfry tower.
What is spy on the British soldiers in the street?
"Wanders and watches"
A determined person can accomplish great things, can be thought of as the story's.....
What is theme?
" A hurry of hooves in the village street" means this is happening.
What is that Paul Revere's steed is galloping fast?
The author most likely feels this about the farmers of Concord.
What is admiration for their courage in firing back at the British?
"the fate of a nation was riding that night"
What is hyperbole?
April 1775
Night
Massachusets
Lexington
What is the setting?
"Who at the bridge would be first to fall.." is asking?
Who would be the first man killed in the war?
"He heard the bleating of the flock, / And the twitter of birds among the trees,"
What is a onomatopoeia?
It is the last thing that happened in the poem.
What is that the colonists achieved a victory because of the warning?
The narrator of the poem
Who is the landlord?
(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is acceptable also)
What does the author mean when he says, "The fate of a nation was riding that night..."
What is that the Americans depended upon Paul's warning to fight and one day become a country?
Paul Revere's ride was perilous.
The night was murky.
He hoped the British did not glimpse him.
What do the three italicized words have in common?
What is they are all on the assigned vocabulary list?
(In the back of the room.)