acrostic

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

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.

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.