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Acrostic

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How To Write An Acrostic Poem-Poetry Lesson

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How to Write Acrostic Poems

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Acrostic Poems

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How To Write An Acrostic Poem

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Poetry Month- How To Write An Acrostic Poem

An acrostic is a poem in which the first letter of each line spells out a word, message or the alphabet. The word comes from the French acrostiche from post-classical Latin acrostichis, from Koine Greek ἀκροστιχίς, from Ancient Greek ἄκρος "highest, topmost" and στίχος "verse"). As a form of constrained writing, an acrostic can be used as a mnemonic device to aid memory retrieval.
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