1) Beginnings of poetry 2) Certain word puzzle 3) Clever verse 4) Crossword cousin 5) Feature of Psalm 119 6) First-letters hidden message 7) Initial puzzle 8) It often involves a quote 9) Kind of quote puzzle 10) Kind of word puzzle 11) Popular puzzle type 12) Problem 13) Psalm 119 14) Puzzle book entry
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An acrostic is a poem or other form of writing in which the first letter, syllable or word of each line, paragraph or other recurring feature in the text spells out a word or a message. The word comes from the French acrostiche from post-classical Latin acrostichis, from Koine Greek ἀκροστιχίς, from Ancient Greek ἄκρος `highest, ....
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[puzzle] An acrostic is a type of word puzzle, related somewhat to crossword puzzles, that uses an acrostic form. It typically consists of two parts. The first part is a set of lettered clues, each of which has numbered blanks representing the letters of the answer. The second part is a long series of numbered blanks and spaces, representin...
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a word, phrase, or passage spelled out vertically by the first letters of a group of lines in sequence. Sir John Davies' Hymnes of Astraea dedicates 26 acrostic poems to Elizabeth I. Edgar Allan Poe's 'Enigma' provides another example. Samuel Johnson's great dictionary (1755) quotes John Dryden: Leave writing plays, and choose for thy command Some ...
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• (n.) A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto. • (n.) A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). See Abecedarian. • (n.) Alt. of Acrost...
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short verse composition, so constructed that the initial letters of the lines, taken consecutively, form words. The term is derived from the Greek ...
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A poem in which the first or last letters of each line vertically form a word, phrase, or sentence.
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A word, phrase, or passage spelled out vertically by the first letters of a group of lines in sequen
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A·cros'tic noun [ Greek ...; ... extreme + ... order, line, verse.]
1. A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto.
2. A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin...
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Poem where the first letter of each line spells out a significant word e.g.
Flat land stretching
Endlessly be-
Neath a huge
Sky.
The term acrostic derives from the Greek for 'at the tip of the verse'. See also telestich.
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An acrostic is a poem in which the first or last, or certain other letters of the line, taken in order, form some name, motto, or sentence. A poem of which both first and last letters are thus arranged is called a double acrostic. Double acrostics became very popular in 1867.
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n] - verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message
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A sentence where the first letter of each word of the sentence helps to remember the spelling of a word, or order of things. For example Never Eat Sour Wieners = North, East, South, West.
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acrostic, acrostical, acrostichic 1. A number of lines of writing, especially a poem or word puzzle, in which particular letters, e.g., the first, in each line spell a word or phrase. 2. A short poem (or other composition) in which the initial letters of the lines, taken in order, spell a word, phrase, or sentence. Sometimes the last or middle lett...
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a poetic form which is organised by the initial letters of a key word, either at the beginning of lines, or with lines arranged around them: Whistling wildly Blowing In a rain Northern round Direction. and round.
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A number of lines of writing, usually verse, whose initial letters (read downwards) form a word, phrase, or sentence. A single acrostic is formed by the initial letters of lines only; a double acrostic is formed by the first and last letters
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a series of lines or verses in which the first, last, or other particular letters when taken in order spell out a word, phrase, etc.
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A sentence or phrase in which each word begins with a letter that acts as a memory cue.
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