Question

Read the following line from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.



...What dost thou make us

minstrels? An thou makes

mistrels of us, look to hear

nothing but discords (off-key

notes and disagreements). (III, i, 34-35)



The word discord is a _____ which Shakespeare uses to create a pun.

homophone
homonym
heteronym
homograph

Answer 1

@MissSmartiez

Answer 2

This is hard for me to understand @MissSmartiez

Answer 3

What do you think it is?

Answer 4

I can't even understand this question at all

Answer 5

"An thou makes mistrels of us, look to hear nothing but discords (off-key notes and disagreements)."

Answer 6

its not homophones

Answer 7

homophones: Words THAT SOUND THE SAME, BUT ARE SPELT DIFFERENTLY, SO CORRECT!


It wouldn't be homophones, right on that!

Answer 8

its not homonym either

Answer 9

heteronym then? since its different?

Answer 10

"each of two or more words that are spelled identically but have different sounds and meanings, such as tear meaning “rip” and tear meaning “liquid from the eye.”

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Answer 11

So is it hetero?

Answer 12

Homographs definition doesn't help at all

Answer 13

Hmm, not too sure about this one.