A ballad /ËbaelÉd/ ËbÃ¦lÉd is a form of, verse often a narrative set to. Music ballads derive from the Medieval french chanson balladee balladÃ©e, or ballade which were originally. dancing songshe rhyming songs, poems and tales written in the form of ballads often relate to the itinerant and rebellious spirit of Australia in The Bush, and the authors and performers are often referred to as bush bards.
Two or more words that sound the same but are spelled differently are called homophones. (Homo- is the Greek root for same, and phon- is the Greek root for sound, so homophone means same sound.) These are words that can be confusing for writers. Below are some common homophones that are often confused.
Thus homonyms are simultaneously homographs (words that share the same spelling, regardless of their pronunciation) and homophones (words that share the same pronunciation, regardless of their spelling). The state of being a homonym is called homonymy.he word homonym comes from the Greek á½Î¼ÏÎ½ÏÎ¼Î¿Ï (homonumos), meaning having the same name, which is the conjunction of á½Î¼ÏÏ (homos), common, same and á½Î½Î¿Î¼Î± (onoma) meaning name. Thus, it refers to two or more distinct concepts sharing the same name or signifier.