When a medical student uses the phrase "On old Olympus's towering top, a Finn and a German Vault and Hop" to help her remember the 12 cranial nerves in the correct order, she is using _________________ to help her study.
A) an acronym
B) an acrostic mnemonic
C) a rhyming mnemonic
D) a peg word mnemonic

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The phrase "On old Olympus's towering top, a Finn and a German Vault and Hop" is an example of an acrostic mnemonic, where the first letter of each word represents the first letter of each of the 12 cranial nerves in the correct order.

When a Medical Student Uses the Phrase "On Old Olympus's