Homophone

Two or more words which sound the same but are spelt differently and have different meanings, for example ‘would’ and ‘wood’, ‘flower’ and ‘flour’.

A more extensive list of literary terms, with quotations from fiction and non-fiction sources showing the terms in use, is included in The Right Word: A Writer’s Toolkit of Grammar, Vocabulary and Literary Terms (Bloomsbury 2021) 

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