Q. What are the effects of meter and rhyme in this stanza on the mood of the poem select each correct answer?
Answer: The meter and the rhyme create a quiet and suspenseful mood. The meter and the rhyme create a frightening and foreboding mood.
Q. What is the effect of the poetic structure used in this stanza from the poem?
What is the effect of the poetic structure used in this stanza from the poem? Its use of rhyming couplets make it engaging and easy to remember.
Q. How does this stanza add to the sense of danger in this poem?
How does this stanza add to the sense of danger in this poem? By its own reflection in the tide. Paul Revere has to row undetected past the enemy’s ship that seems larger than it really is. The moonlight threatens to reveal Paul Revere.
Q. What is a central idea of this excerpt of Paul Revere’s ride How does the structure of the poem help to develop this central idea?
The central idea if the poem called “Paul Revere’s Ride” is the overall idea of how America could be made free from England. The overall structure gradually proceeds toward this. We feel the journey of Paul as we read the lines indicated in separate paragraphs. The poem in its words led a bit heroic.
Q. What type of poem is Paul Revere’s ride?
“Paul Revere’s Ride,” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, is an example of a narrative poem.
Q. Were the British coming by land or by sea?
The two lanterns meant that the British troops planned to row “by sea” across the Charles River to Cambridge, rather than march “by land” out Boston Neck.
Q. Why did Paul Revere warn the colonists?
On this night in 1775, Paul Revere was instructed by the Sons of Liberty to ride to Lexington, Mass., to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were marching to arrest them.
Q. How did Paul Revere’s Ride impact the American Revolution?
He is most famous for alerting Colonial militia of British invasion before the Battles of Lexington and Concord. Because of Paul Revere’s Ride, the Minutemen were ready the next morning on Lexington green for the historic battle that launched the War of Independence.
Q. What was Paul Revere’s role in the Boston Tea Party?
He took part in the Boston Tea Party and was principal rider for Boston’s Committee of Safety. In that role, he devised a system of lanterns to warn the minutemen of a British invasion, setting up his famous ride on April 18, 1775.
Q. How did Paul Revere promote freedom?
He is signing a bill into law. How can people promote freedom? They can vote, serve our country in battles, make laws, and acquire information to help maintain freedom.
Q. What did Paul Revere make as a silversmith?
Following the war, Revere returned to his silversmith trade. He used the profits from his expanding business to finance his work in iron casting, bronze bell and cannon casting, and the forging of copper bolts and spikes….
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Q. How long was Paul Revere a silversmith?
There are two primary daybooks that survive for the silver shop (at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston), covering the years 1761-1783 and 1783-1797, although Revere worked before and after those years. The daybooks record the making of over 5,000 silver objects, and almost 24,000 prints.
Q. Do silversmiths still exist?
The work of a Silversmith in the 18th century was considered art and is still true today. Silversmiths cut, shape, and file sheets of silver with precision to create jewelry and decorative teaspoons, among other items. These items can be found for sale in the Golden Ball.
