Paul Revere's Ride - Vocabulary
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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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Paul Revere's Ride Poem
Storyboard Text
- Definitions
- Is this the place?
- Characteristics
- gloomy, depressing, or dismal
- Examples
- SOMBER
- The belfry tower of the Old North Church, As it rose above the graves on the hill, Lonely and spectral and somber and still.
- Non-Examples
- bleak, dark, solemn, mournful
- bright, cheerful, encouraging, hopeful, lively
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