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How to use acrostics in a sentence

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We want to be quite well to tackle double acrostics and to have access to books.
This is almost an encyclopedia of rhetorical strategy and poetic form, from the sonnet and the Keatsian ode to concrete poetry and acrostics.
Since then, acrostic puzzles have evolved into double acrostics and triple acrostics.
I may be trying double and triple acrostics next, kind of like a crossword puzzle.
It's immediately apparent that the first, second and fourth chapters are alphabetic acrostics, with the third a triple acrostic.
But my brief experience in cryptography left me with a great love of double acrostics, which I still do!
In the Old Testament all the recognized acrostics belong to the alphabetical type.
Mullen's poems, which often incorporate word games like anagrams, acrostics, and puns, can border on the nonsensical.
The Greeks did enjoy making acrostics, but that's a different kind of wordplay.
Both free verse and rhymed poetry styles are studied, including cinquain, haiku, tanka, rhopalic, echo and refrain poems, acrostics, alphabet and dictionary poems.
If you thought that puns, acrostics, charades, et cetera were quaint relics from a bygone era, then think again as Robert Dessaix brings us up to date on Word Games.
He took weekly Sabbath walks to the University of North Carolina to sell fruit, soon winning the students' admiration by composing love lyrics and acrostics to order.
The games are a bit archaically presented, but they include palindromes, acrostics, higgledy-piggledies, anagrams, etc.
A bunch of definitive reverse acrostics presented in February included seven wordplay terms, with especially fun ones for logology and logophile.
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There is another near relation of the anagrams and acrostics, which is commonly called a chronogram.
Additional resources such as books and web sites are also included in this fun acrostics poem definition and how to manual.
However, transforming the acrostics into power-point poems opens up considerably more possibilities.
When this method fails, they have two others more effectual, which the learned among them call acrostics and anagrams.
The book wraps up with extra information on acrostics and the showcased animals.
Most people recognize acrostics in their traditional version in which the first letter of each line spells a word or phrase when read downward.
Judge for yourself in this puzzle which progresses from single through five letter acrostics of the same collection of nineteen quotations.
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