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.