Paul Reverse's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Question

Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five: Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and years.
He said to his friend, "If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal-light, One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middles3x village and farm, For the country folk to be up and to arm."
Then he said, Good-night! and with muffled oar Silently rowed to the Charlestown shore, Just as the swinging wide at her moorings lay
The Somerset, British man-of-war;
A phantom ship, with each mast and spar
Across the moon like a prison-bar,
And a huge black hulk, that was magnified
By its own reflection in the tide.

Use the first three stanzas of the poem "Paul Reverse's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to answer the question.

Drag and drop the phrases into the correct locations

The author's purpose in comparing each
"mast and spar" to a
1.___
is to
2.___

a. show the need for the strength and power when fighting the British
b. "huge black hulk"
c. "prison-bar"
d. illustrate the consequences of losing the war to the British

Answer 1

The author's purpose in comparing each "mast and spar" to a

1. c. "prison-bar"

is to

2. d. illustrate the consequences of losing the war to the British.