Question

Use the passage to answer the following question:

So through the night rode Paul Revere,
And so through the night went his cry of alarm To every Middlesex village and farm,
A cry of defiance, and not of fear,
A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,
And a word that shall echo for evermore!
- "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1860

Which answer describes this poem?

A. A secondary source recounting oral histories.
B. A primary source recording events as they happen.
C. A primary source documenting of one of the participants.
D. A secondary resource describing an event in the past.

Answer 1

The answer is A. Don't believe the guy above.

Step-by-step explanation:

I took the guy above's advice and got it wrong. A primary source is firsthand witness. That means it was written by a person who experienced it. A secondary source is someone who could have heard about it, but they didn't experience it in the moment it happened.

Answer 2

b a primary source recording of events as they happen