Paul Revere's Ride - Figurative Language
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Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Lesson Plans by Elizabeth Pedro
The famous narrative poem “Paul Revere’s Ride” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow describes the midnight ride of Paul Revere to warn the American farmers and villagers that the British were coming to attack. This poem is the origin of the famous saying "One if by land, two if by sea".
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Figurative Language in Paul Revere's Ride Poem
Storyboard Text
- PERSONIFICATION
- All is well...
- SIMILE
- METAPHOR
- The watchful night-wind, as it went Creeping along from tent to tent, And seeming to whisper, "All is well!"
- A phantom ship, with each mast and spar Across the moon like a prison bar,
- And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight, Kindled the land into flame with its heat.
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