A metaphor says or implies that one thing is something else. Homographs and Homophones Homographs are words that are spelled the same but have different meanings and base words. They may or may not be pronounced the same way. Homographs each have separate entries in the dictionary. Homophones are words that are pronounced the same way but have different meanings and are spelled differently.
Homonyms are homophones.
Idioms, Personification An idiom is comprised of a group of words that takes on a special meaning different from the meaning of its separate words. The idiom must be interpreted as a single expression, not as a combination of the meanings of each of the words. Personification means to give human traits to things or animals. Guide words appear at the top of a dictionary page to indicate the first and last words on each page. Each word that is defined in a dictionary is called an entry word.