Maya Angelou Flocabulary Video

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

It's Maya Angelou's ___,

A history of a person's life written in all honesty.

• Simile

• Imagery

• Autobiography

Select the synonym for the following words

gift

tradition

heritage

• imagery

• legacy

• memoir

to separate people, especially by race, or to restrict use of or access to a place or service to members of a certain race or category.

• memoir

• metaphor

• segregate

His poem was full of beautiful ___; I felt as though I could smell and see the flowers just from reading it.

• resilience

• imagery

• legacy

After their parents split up, Grandma held them down

Through the mix up, while they drown in a sea of grief.

That's a(n) ___, using words figuratively

• metaphor

• autobiography

• legacy

After a long and interesting life, she decided to write a ___ about her experiences.

• metaphor

• resilience

• memoir

Which word goes with this image?

• simile

• resilience

• autobiography

In 1954, the Supreme Court declared that it was not constitutional to ___ schools and that schools had to accept students of all races.

• simile

• legacy

• segregate

language that describes something very vividly so that readers can understand it with their senses.

• resilience

• memoir

• imagery

Her books and poems filled with ___,

Like similes, metaphors, and imagery.

• resilience

• autobiography

• figurative language