The Great Migration Test

What is a synonym for Barren?

• productive

• hungry

• deserted

• exciting

What does the word guardian mean?

• leader

• protector

• buyer

• prisoner

What is does exodus mean?

• multitude

• expressway

• departure

• staircase

A series of words that begin with the same initial consonant sound

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

A word that is spelled like the noise it makes

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

Why did African Americans leave everything behind in order to head north?

• Better housing

• More opportunities

• The south was making them leave

• Education was better

What is the main idea?

• What the author wants you to know about a story

• The life lesson of a story

• A quote pulled directly from the text

• An illustration that sums up the text

What is the purpose of supporting details?

• To be the main idea

• To show what you're saying is false

• To hold up the main idea (table legs)

Name that figurative language/figure of speech!

You are my sunshine.

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Ontomontopoeia

Name that figurative language/figure of speech!

It's raining cats and dogs!

• Metaphor

• Idiom

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole