Acrostic vs. Mnemonic

Acrosticnoun

A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message.

Acrosticnoun

A particular kind of word puzzle: its solutions form an anagram of a quotation, and their initials often form its author.

Acrosticnoun

A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto.

Acrosticnoun

A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). See Abecedarian.

Acrosticnoun

Pertaining to, or characterized by, acrostics.

Acrosticnoun

a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across

Acrosticnoun

verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message

Acrosticnoun

a poem, word puzzle, or other composition in which certain letters in each line form a word or words.

Acrostic

An acrostic is a poem (or other form of writing) in which the first letter (or syllable, or word) of each line (or paragraph, or other recurring feature in the text) 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 and στίχος .

Mnemonicadjective

Of or relating to mnemonics: the study of techniques for remembering anything more easily.

Mnemonicnoun

Anything (especially something in verbal form) used to help remember something.

Mnemonicnoun

(computing) The textual, human-readable form of an assembly language instruction, not including operands.

Mnemonicadjective

Assisting in memory; helping to remember; as, a mnemonic device.

Mnemonicnoun

Something used to assist the memory, as an easily remembered acronym or verse.

Mnemonicnoun

An abbreviated word that resembles the full word, used so as to be easily recognized; as, the CIDE uses ... tags as mnemnonics for an italicised word or field.

Mnemonicadjective

of or relating to or involved the practice of aiding the memory;

Mnemonicnoun

a system such as a pattern of letters, ideas, or associations which assists in remembering something

Mnemonicadjective

aiding or designed to aid the memory.

Mnemonicadjective

relating to the power of memory.

Mnemonic

A mnemonic () device, or memory device, is any learning technique that aids information retention or retrieval (remembering) in the human memory. Mnemonics make use of elaborative encoding, retrieval cues, and imagery as specific tools to encode information in a way that allows for efficient storage and retrieval.