Poetry homework? What do these terms mean?

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What do these terms mean? Could you please give examples? I've tried to look them up online, but all I can find are dictionary definitions.
Cacophonous
Euphonious
Assonance
Consonance
Blank verse
Couplet
End rhyme
End-stopped line
Concrete Poem
Form
Prose
Epic
 
try this site:

http://www.english.uga.edu/cdesmet/class/engl4830/work/projects/brent/alphadef.htm
 
1. using words or sounds that don't sound melodious.... like k's and v's
2. The opposite, sounds that are pretty or flowing in words.
3. I believe something to do with repeating vowel sounds
4.I believe this one involves repetitive consonant sounds
5. Poetry that doesn't rhyme but follows a scheme
6. A four line a-a-b-b poem
7. when the words at the end of the line rhyme
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11. Anything not poetry
12. A long poem that tells a story of myth or legend, like Beowulf
 
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