Transcript Homonyms
Antonyms, Synonyms, Homophones, Homographs, and Homonyms. • What’s the difference between them? • How do they improve my writing? • Complete the chart. Homographs, Homophones and Homonyms • It’s easy to confuse homographs with homophones and homonyms, but if you think about each word, they make more sense. • Homo- means “same.” • But the end of each word tells us what is the same. Homophone • “Phone” has to do with sound. When you talk on the telephone, you hear the other person’s voice. • When people in the 1800s used a gramophone, they were listening to music. • And phonology is the study of a language’s sounds. • So “homophone” means “same sound.” • Homophones are pronounced the same. Homophones • Homophones are words that sound alike but they have different meanings and different spellings. Won and One There and Their Too, Two, and To Homophones See Sea Meet Meat Homophones Blue Blew Pair Pear Homographs • “Graph” has to do with writing or drawing. When you think about a graph, you envision a picture. • If you read graphic novels, you know they have pictures. Someone drew them. • So “homograph” means “same picture” or “same writing.” • Homographs are written (spelled) the same. Homographs • Homographs are words that may or may not sound alike but have the same spelling but a different meaning. Read and Read Tire and Tire Polish, Polish Homographs Bow Bow Scale Scale Homographs Tear Tear Row Row Homonym • “Nym” means “name.” They’re spelled the same (homographs) or pronounced the same (homophones), but they have different meanings. Homonym • Homonyms include words that have the same pronunciation or the same spelling or both but are different in meaning Cell, Sell Lie, Lie Fair, Fair, Fare Homonym bark bark knight night Synonym • Has the same or nearly the same meaning, but spelled differently. • Like neat • Adore exciting • Good nice • Happy glad Antonyms • Words that opposite meanings • Happy • Easy • Pass sad hard fail Idioms • A phrase that has special meaning. • Raining cats and dogs. • Cold as molasses. • Funny as a lizard. Similes and Metaphors • A comparison that uses like or as is called a simile. • A comparison without using the word as or like is called a metaphor. • The moon is like a glowing pearl. His words felt as sharp as thorns. • The moon is a glowing pearl. His mean words were thorns.