Which term describes two words that are spelled similarly but pronounced differently?

• A. Enjambment
• B. Meter
• C. Eye rhyme
• D. Metonymy

Answer: (C)

Eye rhyme describes a visual similarity between words that misleads the ear. It happens when two words look like they should rhyme because of their spelling, but when spoken their sounds don’t actually rhyme. This distinction between what the eye sees in spelling and what the ear hears is what eye rhyme captures, making it a key term in poetry analysis. For example, bough and cough share a similar ending in writing, yet they are pronounced differently. The other terms refer to different poetry concepts: enjambment deals with continuing a sentence across line breaks, meter is about the rhythm pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, and metonymy is a figure of speech in which something stands for something else.