Paul Revere's Ride Figurative Language

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The one most American’s know as an American hero, Paul Revere, see him as a very heroic character. However, many American’s have been fooled into believing a myth. Many believe that Paul Revere rode the full way to warn the militiamen and Sam Adams, that the British were coming. Nevertheless, he was arrested before he made it to them. In the poem, “Paul Revere’s Ride,” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Revere’s ride was much exaggerated in the poem to seem more heroic than the story originally told. Longfellow uses figurative language consisting of rhyme scheme, metaphors, foreshadowing, and imagery. Furthermore, the poet uses figurative language to convey and create suspense. To begin, the author uses metaphors to display a mood or tone
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