Anaquote
In an anaquote, a quotation—or, in an anaquip, an original quip—is divided into trigrams, which are presented in alphabetical order. All words and punctuation are shown in the enumeration, with capitalization indicated by * or ^, as in this example:
Solvers arrange the trigrams, using the given word lengths, to find the quotation and author, whose name is usually included after the quotation. Solution: Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. L. Mumford. (The author is listed this way, rather than Mumford or Lewis Mumford, so the total length is divisible by three.) Anaquotes may be no longer than 99 letters.
The anaquote was introduced by Arty Ess.
In an alternating anaquote, instead of all trigrams, the pieces alternate between two lengths, most often 3 and 4, but possibly 2 and 3, or 2 and 4. The pieces are sorted by length, then alphabetically within each group. The first piece comes from the first group. Example:
The solution: The answer is blowin’ in the wind. Dylan. Alternating anaquotes with lengths 2 and 3 should have at most 33 “N-grams” (83 letters); for lengths 2/4, at most 37 N-grams (112 letters); for lengths 3/4, at most 39 N-grams (137 letters). The alternating anaquote was introduced by V in 2019.
See also vertiquote.