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.
A homophone is a type of homonym in the loose sense of that term (a word which sounds or is spelled the same as another). (The strict sense of homonym is a word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word.) A homograph is a word with the same spelling as another but a completely unrelated meaning.