| A | B |
| attention | care and thoughtfulness |
| concentrate | focus on or think think about only one thing |
| creativity | ability to think of new ideas and to express them |
| experience | something that happens to a person |
| inspired | filled with ideas, encouraged to create |
| inventive | able to think of new ideas, creative |
| memory | the ability to remember, something remembered from the past |
| motive | reason for doing something |
| routine | something that is done that same way all of the time |
| flakes | flat, thin pieces of cereal |
| rocket fuel | high energy, excitement |
| burned off | was used up, was gone |
| blistered | red and hot |
| nub | small, pointed object |
| a measure | a certain amount |
| physical sensation | feeling in my body |
| tingled | felt like it was full of electricity |
| doodle | write without thinking very much |
| a nice feeling settles on my shoulders | I feel good, I start to get comfortable |
| my mind is clear | I can think clearly |
| study | room for reading and writing |
| a great deal | a lot |
| reworking line breaks | changing where the lines end |
| hints | give a clue |
| remarked | said, made the comment |
| an act of | an effort or action involving |
| no regular rhyme or rhythm | no patterns for the sounds at the end of the lines or the best of lines |
| posters | pictures placed for people to see or read |
| recognize | see or know |
| identified with | understood or shared in |
| typed it out | used a machine or a computer to print the words |