What is Mnemonic?
{{Other uses}} [[Image:Month - Knuckles (en).svg|thumb|350px| A mnemonic using your [[knuckle]]s to remember the long months of the year]] A '''mnemonic''' is a way for people to remember things more easily. For example, the treble clef lines on a music staff are for the notes E G B D and F. Music students are taught to remember this with a mnemonic - '''E'''very '''G'''ood '''B'''oy '''D'''oes '''F'''ine.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.salisbury.edu/counseling/New/review_for_an_exam.html |title=FINAL REVIEW BEFORE AN EXAM |work=salisbury.edu |accessdate=13 January 2011 |archive-date=26 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110426053920/http://www.salisbury.edu/counseling/New/review_for_an_exam.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The first known mnemonics were used by the [[Ancient Greece|Ancient Greeks]]. [[Cicero]] said the poet [[Simonides]] (c.556-c.468 B.C) discovered the power of mnemonics to help him make visual images so he could remember things.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mental-imagery/ancient-imagery-mnemonics.html |title=Mental Imagery > Ancient Imagery Mnemonics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) |work=plato.stanford.edu |accessdate=13 January 2011 |archive-date=18 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160518122806/http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mental-imagery/ancient-imagery-mnemonics.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The word ''mnemonic'' comes from the Greek words ''mnene'', meaning [[memory]] and ''mnemon'', meaning mindful.<ref>{{Cite web |url= http://www.eudesign.com/mnems/_mnframe.htm |title= MNEMONICS - INDEX/INTRODUCTION |work=eudesign.com |accessdate=13 January 2011 }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{-}} [[Category:Memory]] {{stub}}