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How to pronounce “acrostic”
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Pronunciation guide for acrostic
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of acrostic with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 3 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- What I Learned About Freedom in a Secret Chinese Prison
An acrostic poem knocked via the adjacent cell's walls
- Definition summary
- A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message. [from 16th c.]
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How to pronounce acrostic
What I Learned About Freedom in a Secret Chinese Prison
An acrostic poem knocked via the adjacent cell's walls
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “acrostic”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message. [from 16th c.]
- A poem in Hebrew in which successive lines or verses start with consecutive letters of the alphabet.
- 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.
- [Adjective]
- Of or pertaining to acrostics.
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