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The abecedarius is most probably the oldest type of acrostic. [8] Its origins have been linked to either the sacred nature of letters and the mystical significance of these types of arrangements [8] [2] [3] or its didactic use as a mnemonic and instructive device for children. [2]
Relatively simple acrostics may merely spell out the letters of the alphabet in order; such an acrostic may be called an 'alphabetical acrostic' or abecedarius.These acrostics occur in the Hebrew Bible in the first four of the five chapters of the Book of Lamentations, in the praise of the good wife in Proverbs 31:10-31, and in Psalms 9-10, 25, 34, 37, 111, 112, 119 and 145. [4]
A-B-C-darians, ABC-darians, or abecedarians were the youngest students (then called scholars) in the typical one-room school of 19th-century America. The name comes from its original purpose which was mainly restricted to learning the alphabet.
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
Acrostic: a poem in which the first letter of each line spells out a word, name, or phrase when read vertically. Example: “ A Boat beneath a Sunny Sky ” by Lewis Carroll. Concrete (aka pattern): a written poem or verse whose lines are arranged as a shape/visual image, usually of the topic.
"Alphabet" is a book-length poem following the tradition of Abecedarian poems, in which each line begins with the next letter of the alphabet sequentially from A through Z. Each of the poem's fourteen sections [3] of the poem is tied to a letter of the alphabet and the number of lines found in each section is dictated by the Fibonacci sequence ...
Abecedarians were a 16th-century German sect of Anabaptists who rejected all human learning. Questions have been raised as to the historical accuracy of the name and sect, though the term was applied broadly to the Zwickau Prophets .
The 26 lines of the poem represent the altar's self-referential soliloquy, but the initial letters of the lines are also an acrostic that spell out a complimentary message to the Emperor. [ 2 ] Finally there is a poem written in Latin by Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius dating from the first quarter of the 4th century.