Question

Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

Too much horrified to speak (“The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe)

The words in bold are spelled differently and have different meanings, even though they are pronounced the same. What are they called?

synonyms
homonyms
antonyms
acronyms

Answer 1

Answer: D---

HOMONYMS

Answer 2

Answer:

Option B, homonyms

Explanation:

Lets see the definition of all the under given terms -

synonyms  - These are the words which have different spelling and pronunciation but have similar meanings. Such as difficult is the synonym of hard

homonyms  - These are the words which have different spellings and meanings  but have similar pronunciation. For example - Fare and fair

antonyms - These are words which have opposite meanings to each other. for example - Good and Bad

acronyms - These are abbreviations formed by collating the first letter of each word. For example NHB is the acronym of National Housing Bank

Thus, Option B is the correct choice of answer