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An acrostic is a poem or a piece of writing where the first letter of each line — or sometimes the last letter — spells a word or a name when you read those letters down the page. Teachers use them as a memory game (a name hidden in the lines); puzzle books use them too. The hiding can be at the start of the line, which is the usual kind, or at the end; the point is that the letters in a fixed place make a second message. It is a mild, school-and-puzzle word, not everyday chat. Though actually, people sometimes confuse it with an , because both play with first letters — but an smashes letters into one new word (NATO), while an acrostic leaves you a whole poem with a word running down the side.
藏頭詩、離合詩
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
acrosticnoun/əˈkɹɒstɪk/
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A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message.
- He [Judas Maccabeus] was termed Mackabæus, becauſe he carried in his ſtandard, or vexillum militare, theſe four Hebrew letters, Mem, Chaph, Beth, and Jod, or M. C. B. and J. whereunto their points being added, which are their vowells, (for others they have none) his mott was Mackabai, whereof he took his name. Theſe four letters are the acroſtickes or initiall letters of theſe four wordes in the fifteenth chapter of the book of Exodus, Mi Chamocha Baalim Jehovah, which is in Latin Quis ſicut tu Deorum Jehova? ["Who among the gods is like you, O Adonai?", Exodus 15:11.]
- I have written an acroſticke ſonet to his Maieſtie, a canzonet to the Queene, and another acroſticke unto the Prince; whoſe ſervant I am by vow, and ſubordinate ſubject by birth.
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A poem in Hebrew in which successive lines or verses start with consecutive letters of the alphabet.
- The Whole [of the Book of Zephaniah] is wrote in a very lively, tender, and pathetic Stile; and all the Chapters, except the laſt, (which ſeems to have been of later Compoſition than the reſt) are in Acroſtick Verſe, i.e. every Line, or Couplet, begins, in an Alphabetical Order, with ſome Letter in the Hebrew Alphabet.
- Each of the five chapters of the Lamentations contains a distinct elegy, according to the number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet. And in the first four chapters the versification resembles acrostics. In the three first chapters each verse consists of three lines, and the initial letters of each verse are in the order of the Hebrew alphabet, with the exception that i. 7, and ii. 19, consist of five lines.
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A kind of word puzzle, whose solution forms an anagram of a quotation, with its initial letters often forming the name of the person quoted.
- those who rack their brains in solving the Acrostics in our Sunday papers will, perchance, be saved many a rack and many a failure by our reverse alphabetical arrangement
- For those of you who are new to acrostics, here is what to do. Your goal is to figure out the quote in the grid. […] Reading down the first letter of each answer spells the name of the author and the title of the work from which the quote was taken.
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A kind of word puzzle in which a series of words are clued, and individual letters from the clued word spell out one or more additional words.
acrosticadj/əˈkɹɒstɪk/
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Of or pertaining to acrostics.
- Other ancients have suggested that the original verses were written in hieroglyphs and also mentioned the acrostic code.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。