Acrostic

Acrostic: When the first letters of successive lines are arranged either in alphabetical order (= abecedarian) or in such a way as to spell a word.

MITCH

Meager

Intellect

Tying

Congress’s

Hands

Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu).

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