Brown Girl Dreaming vocabulary

Memoir

• A story someone writes about a specific period of time in their lives.

  
  

• Ordinary written language; not poetry

  
  

• One of the parts into which a poem is divided.

  
  

• To crush, especially as to make a soft splashing noise

  
  

Prose

• Ordinary written language; not poetry

• A story someone writes about a specific period of time in their lives.

  
  

• The act of singing with closed lips

  
  

• Wind or spin around one another.

  
  

Stanzas

• One of the parts into which a poem is divided.

  
  

• To crush, especially as to make a soft splashing noise

  
  

• The act of singing with closed lips

  
  

• Wind or spin around one another.

  
  

Squish

• To crush, especially as to make a soft splashing noise

  
  

• The act of singing with closed lips

  
  

• When something turns around and around with a smooth fast movement.

  
  

Humming

• The act of singing with closed lips

  
  

• Wind or spin around one another.

  
  

• When something turns around and around with a smooth fast movement.

  
  

• Tells or signals someone to be quiet.

  
  

Twist

• Wind or spin around one another.

  
  

• When something turns around and around with a smooth fast movement.

  
  

• Tells or signals someone to be quiet.

  
  

• Light and airy like the touch of a feather.

  
  

Twirl

• When something turns around and around with a smooth fast movement.

  
  

• Tells or signals someone to be quiet.

  
  

• Light and airy like the touch of a feather.

  
  

Shushes

• Tells or signals someone to be quiet.

  
  

• When something turns around and around with a smooth fast movement.

  
  

• To crush, especially as to make a soft splashing noise

  
  

Feathery

• Light and airy like the touch of a feather.

  
  

• One of the parts into which a poem is divided.

  
  

• To crush, especially as to make a soft splashing noise