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.
If, when spoken, the meanings may be distinguished by different pronunciations, the words are also heteronyms. Words with the same writing and pronunciation (i.e. are both homographs and homophones) are considered homonyms. However, in a looser sense the term homonym may be applied to words with the same writing or pronunciation. Homograph disambiguation is critically important in speech synthesis, natural language processing and other fields. Identically-written different senses of what is judged to be fundamentally the same word are called polysemes; for example, wood (substance) and wood (area covered with trees).