Acrostic Originally, a short verse composition, constructed so that one or more sets of letters (such as the initial, middle, or final letters of the lines), taken consecutively, form words. An acrostic in which the initial letters form the alphabet is called an... more
Acrostic . Verbal play in which initial or individual letters, taken in order, form a word or phrase—called an acrostic—appears in French texts from about the middle of the 13th century, and the practice continues throughout the medieval period. The a... more
