acrostic
/əˈkɹɒstɪk/noun
High School
1
A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message.
2
A poem in Hebrew in which successive lines or verses start with consecutive letters of the alphabet.
3
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.
4
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.