Brown Girl Dreaming
Wrote Brown Girl Dreaming
Who is Jacqueline Woodson?
Poetry with no set rhyme or rhythm
What is Free Verse poetry?
Refused to give up her seat on a Birmingham bus
Who was Rosa Parks?
Three paragraphs containing major and minor details
What is the body?
1-3 words what the passage is about
What is a topic?
Daddy Gunnar
Who was Jacqueline Woodson's grandfather?
Poem with 17 syllables
What is haiku?
Preacher and civil rights leader who was killed in Memphis
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King?
Essay that shows how things are alike and different
What is compare/contrast?
is, am, are, was, were, be, being, been
What are the BE verbs?
Fell down the stairs and died
Who is Aunt Kay?
Reference to a cultural, historical, or literary event or person
What is an allusion?
Poet who was part of the Harlem Renaissance
Who is Lanston Hughes?
Used to leave out words or phrases in a quote
What is an ellipses?
Verbal: to + verb
What is an infinitive?
Converted to Islam in prison
Who is Uncle Robert?
For example, abab
What is a rhyme scheme?
Jackie's role model, has a gap in her front teeth
Who was Angela Davis?
likewise, on the other hand, similarly
What are transition words in a compare/contrast essay?
Maria
Who was Jackie's best friend in New York?
Family, race, religion, identity, death, stories
What were the themes in Brown Girl Dreaming?
Frozen ground and a bird with broken wing
What were compared to dreams when they are lost?
Laws that denied civil rights to African Americans
What was Jim Crow?
A sentence that is the last one in the introductory paragraph
What is a thesis statement?
-ing or -ed form of a verb being used as a noun
What is a gerund?