Taken from the 500 questions 5 Steps to a 5 poetry section
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| 675313009 | Consonance | Repetition of consonants (vs assonance with vowels) | 0 | |
| 675313010 | Masculine rhyme | Rhyming of final syllables (ie claims and flames vs feminine/double with 2 syllable rhymes | 1 | |
| 675313011 | Apostrophe | Addressing someone/something not there | 2 | |
| 675313012 | Ode | Formal lyric, lofty for commemoration | 3 | |
| 675313013 | Ballad | Narrative, tells a story | 4 | |
| 675313014 | Sonnet | 14 line iambic pentameter | 5 | |
| 675313015 | Admonition | Scolding, NOT a poem | 6 | |
| 675313016 | Lyric | Short poem, about the emotional state of the speaker | 7 | |
| 675313017 | Pastoral | Poem dealing with shepherds/rustic life, idealized | 8 | |
| 675313018 | Elegy | Formal prose in response to a death, structure goes from lament to proaise to consolation/solace | 9 | |
| 675313019 | Petrarchan sonnet | 14 line poem with an octave and sestet, abba abba, Italian | 10 | |
| 675313020 | Shakespearean sonnet | Iambic pentameter, 14 lines, 3 quatrains (4 lines each) then couplet | 11 | |
| 675313021 | Slant rhymes | Rhymes with similar but not exact sounds, ie prosperous and dangerous | 12 | |
| 675313022 | Panegyric | Public text in praise | 13 | |
| 675313023 | Lampoon | Public criticism | 14 | |
| 675313024 | Anapestic | Beat with 2 unstressed syllables and 1 stressed syllable | 15 | |
| 675313025 | Dactylic | Beat with 1 stressed syllable and 2 unstressed syllables | 16 | |
| 675313507 | Iambic | Beat with 1 unstressed syllable and 1 stressed syllable | 17 | |
| 675313508 | Troachic | Beat with 1 stressed syllable and 1 unstressed syllable | 18 | |
| 675313509 | Spondaic | Beat with 2 stressed syllables | 19 | |
| 675313510 | Conceit | Extended, elaborate metaphor | 20 | |
| 675313511 | Terzi rima | 3 line rhyme scheme | 21 | |
| 675313512 | Epigrams | Clever remarks | 22 | |
| 675313513 | Axioms | Statements considered true | 23 | |
| 675313514 | Metonymies | Substituting an attribute for the thing | 24 | |
| 675313515 | Epistrophe | Repetition of word at the end of a clause/sentence | 25 | |
| 675313516 | Sestina | Poem with 6 stanzas with recurring words | 26 | |
| 675313911 | Villanelle | 19 line poem, 5 tercets and a quatrain, 2 repeating rhymes and 2 refrains | 27 | |
| 675313912 | Denouncement | Unraveling, falling action | 28 | |
| 675314083 | Loose sentence | Cumulative sentence with main clause in the beginning | 29 | |
| 675314084 | Caesura | Pause near middle of line | 30 | |
| 675314085 | Em dashes | Dashes for interruption and introducing a new clause | 31 | |
| 675314086 | Anastrophe | Inversion of usual order of words | 32 | |
| 675314092 | Supplication | Plea or prayer | 33 | |
| 675314093 | Appositive | A noun renaming another noun | 34 |
