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Definitions of acrostic in various dictionaries:
noun - a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across
noun - verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message
A poem or series of lines in which certain letters, usually the first in each line, form a name, motto, or message when read in sequence.
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| It's a poem or verse in which certain letters, usually the first in each line, spell out a word |
| In Hebrew Psalm 34 is one of these: its verses begin with the letters Alef, Bet, Gimel... |
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| (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a poem on the monitor.) The first letter of each line spells out a word or name; here, it's the name "Alice" that Lewis Carroll puts into this type of poem, from the Greek for "tip of the line" |
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| a poem, word puzzle, or other composition in which certain letters in each line form a word or words. |
| a text, usually a poem, in which particular letters, such as the first letters of each line, spell a word or phrase |
| A poem, word puzzle, or other composition in which certain letters in each line form a word or words. |
| A poem or series of lines in which certain letters, usually the first in each line, form a name, motto, or message when read in sequence. |
| See word square. |
| verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message |
| a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across |
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An acrostic is a poem (or other form of writing) in which the first letter (or syllable, or word) of each line (or paragraph, or other recurring feature in the text) spells out a word, message or the alphabet. The word comes from the French acrostiche from post-classical Latin acrostichis, from Koine Greek , from Ancient Greek "highest, topmost" and "verse"). As a form of constrained writing, an acrostic can be used as a mnemonic device to aid memory retrieval. * Relatively simple acrostics may merely spell out the letters of the alphabet in order; such an acrostic may be called an 'alphabetical acrostic' or Abecedarius. These acrostics occur in the first four of the five chapters that make up the Book of Lamentations, in the praise of the good wife in Proverbs 31, 10-31, and in Psalms 25, 34, 37, 111, 112, 119 and 145 of the Hebrew Bible. * Notable among the acrostic Psalms is the long Psalm 119, which typically is printed in subsections named after the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet |