Brown Girl Dreaming Vocabulary

Spongy, cushioned feeling when walking on a flexible surface.

• Humming

• Twist

• Squish

• Shushes

Singing with closed lips and without words.

• Humming

• Twist

• Shushes

• Feathery

Wind or spin around one another.

• Shushes

• Twirl

• Twist

• Humming

Turn around and around quickly.

• Squish

• Feathery

• Twirl

• Twist

Tells or signals someone to be quiet.

• Shushes

• Squish

• Humming

• Feathery

Light and airy, like the touch of a feather.

• Twirl

• Twist

• Shushes

• Feathery

When an author tells a true story of an important time in his or her life.

• Biography

• Memoir

• Stanza

• Autobiography

Complete sentences and paragraphs.

• Prose

• Stanza

• First Person Point of View

• Memoir

Sections, rather than paragraphs (used in poems and songs)

• Prose

• Stanza

• Memoir

Written from the author's perspective (I, me, my)

• Memoir

• First Person Point of View

• Prose

• Stanza