These are other forms of verbal associations. They are more effective when your association also has some connection with why you are remembering the information. But again, thinking up associations is most successful when begun in small groups, and gets better when practiced repeatedly. More entertaining strategies for remembering auditory-verbal information use rhymes, songs, acronyms or acrostics. Advertisers rely heavily on these techniques so that we will remember their products or businesses.
Songs are more difficult to create but very effective.
Many people can hardly keep from adding the melody when they recite the alphabet. I can't spell Massachusetts without using their song. More songs are being marketed now to teach a variety of academic information such as phonics, grammar, punctuation and multiplication. An acronym is a single word made from the first letter of each word from a list or phrase. An acrostic is similar, but instead of a single word, each letter begins a word in a phrase.