Mnemonic devices are techniques that increase your ability to recall names, speeches, test information, and grocery lists. Mnemonics do have limitations. They do not help you understand information, they can be difficult to learn, they may take more energy to develop than just memorizing in more traditional ways, and they do not work as well for technical terms used in math and science. Nonetheless, for the creative right brained individual mnemonics can be helpful. Acronyms are one of the best known mnemonic methods.
Acronyms are words created by the first letter of a series of words.
Mothers Against Drunk Driving. You can make up your own words to recall a series of facts. A popular acronym used by students takes the form of a full name. A similar method is acrostics. The first letters in the words of the sentence stand for something else.