ACROSTICON  每句第一字母連讀法

WORD PLAY in which the first letters of each line combine to make a word suggested by the series of lines.

Text in which the first letters of each line combine to make up an intended expression, also called acrostic.

Hypernym
  • WORD-PLAYSPEECH ACT which does not only use words but plays with their form and content.WORD-PLAY
    • SPEECH ACTRHETORICAL TROPE in the form of a deliberate rhetorico-semantic act performed. [This definition is still a tentative stop-gap, and this category is far larger than I would like. It needs to be intelligently subdivided. CH]
      • RHETORICAL TROPE體裁詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of expressions.
Almost impossible without an alphabetic writing system.

REF: Dupriez.

Greek/Latin: Common literary pasttime.

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