1. Which statement best identifies the poet's purpose in the poem?

O A to test children on how much they know about Paul

Revere's famous ride

OB to share the story of how Paul Revere alerted people

to the approaching British Army

OC to share the story of how an innkeeper helped Paul

Revere stop an approaching British Army

OD to suggest that it was Paul Revere's friends who

alerted people of the approaching British Army, not

Revere

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B to share the story of how Paul Revere alerted people  to the approaching British Army.

Explanation:

This is based on the poem titled, ''Paul Revere's Ride '' by Henry Longfellow.

The poem talks describes one of the most popular stories from the American Revolution about the actions of the Revolutionary, Paul Revere who rode to warn the American Colonists of the march of the British Army on Lexington and Concord.

In describing the events in a poem, Henry Longfellow wanted to let people know just how Paul Revere had alerted people to the British Army.