acrostic
/əˈkɹɑstɪk//əˈkɹɒstɪk//əˈkɹɔstɪk/
noun
- 1
A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message.
- 2
A poem in Hebrew in which successive lines or verses start with consecutive letters of the alphabet.
- 3
A kind of word puzzle, the solution of which forms an anagram of a quotation, and their initials often forming the name of its author.
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