| Since then, acrostic puzzles have evolved into double acrostics and triple acrostics. |
|
| Actually, the composer Stefan Weisman was so taken by the acrostic form that he actually used the armature to compose the music for the opera. |
|
| Lamentations 3 has 66 verses constituting a triple acrostic with the same curious transposition. |
|
| Like the immensely popular numbers puzzle, Su Doku, which The Times introduced to Britain, the acrostic word square is based on a grid. |
|
| It's immediately apparent that the first, second and fourth chapters are alphabetic acrostics, with the third a triple acrostic. |
|
| One could, I think, make an argument for a rough acrostic, a sort of telestich, using repeated rhymes. |
|
| It's a good day to read the Times, do the acrostic, grade some exams, watch a movie, and eat dinner in a restaurant. |
|
| He showed, likewise, a predilection for other metrical diversions, especially the acrostic and telestich. |
|
| I plan to do another blog post, finish the acrostic in the NYT Magazine, and do a bit of walking. |
|
| To reflect this, God's name seems to have been intentionally left out of the narrative, appearing only as a hidden acrostic. |
|
| Students might choose to write an acrostic, a tanka, a limerick, a rap, or a free verse poem. |
|
| Another addition in the hexameter version is the preface, in which Aldhelm again introduces an acrostic and telestich, as he had done in the preface to his riddles. |
|
| Their short poems exhibited astonishing verbal ingenuity and acrobatics and were often dependent on the pun, riddle, or acrostic for effects. |
|
| Use the format of an acrostic, where the beginning letter of each line spelled out the name of the apostle in sequence. |
|
| Encourage students to use a wide variety of poetic forms, such as haiku, limericks, free verse, quatrain and acrostic. |
|
| It is called an acrostic psalm because each one of its 22 paragraphs begins with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet. |
|
| Criteria for Assessment: A good acrostic poem has correct form, content related to the topic, and is free from mechanical errors. |
|
| The title of the poem is a near acrostic, containing the word coital. |
|
| Create an acrostic poem, using the letters of a sports word to create a poem. |
|
| According to the author, the acrostic may first have been used as a mnemotechnic device to ensure completeness in the oral transmission of sacred texts. |
|
|
|
| An acrostic of seven key words introduces readers to aspects of Inuit culture, language and traditions. |
|
| Similarly, the verse at the close of Through the Looking Glass is an acrostic for Alice Pleasance Liddell. |
|
| Students could use their completed organizer to write an acrostic poem. |
|
| Psalm 119 is probably the most elegant of the acrostic psalms, in that each of its 22 paragraphs contains 8 verses and each one of the 8 verses begins with the same letter of the alphabet. |
|
| Each group reads its acrostic to the plenary. |
|
| The term acrostic is also applied to alphabetical, or abecedarian, verses, in which each line after the first, which begins with a, uses a succeeding letter of the alphabet. |
|
| I hope the addition of KenKen to the puzzles page is an accommodation to the new size, not preliminary to discontinuation of the cryptic, acrostic, diagramless, etc. |
|
| Written in Plautus's own iambic senarius metre, these six Latin lines summarize the dramatic action while spelling out the play's title, Rudens, in a verse-initial acrostic. |
|
