If you were trying to learn the names of the planets in order of distance from the sun by thinking of the sentence "Melinda's violet eyes make John stay up nights pondering," you would be using a(n) ______________ mnemonic device.
A) acronym
B) pegword
C) acrostic
D) method of loci

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This sentence is an example of an acrostic mnemonic device, where the first letter of each word in the sentence stands for something else, in this case, the first letter of each planet in our solar system in order from the sun.

If You Were Trying to Learn the Names of the Planets