If two words sound exactly alike but have different spellings and meanings, what type of words might they be?
a. homophones
b. homographs
c. both homographs and homophones
d. neither homographs nor homophones

homophones

Explanation:

Homophones refer to two or more words that have the same pronunciation, even though they have different meanings or spelling, such as there and their, and no and know.

On the other hand, homographs are words with the same spelling, although they may possess distinct pronunciation and mean different things. Examples of homographs are:

in this passage from chapter 6 of "animal farm", by george orwell, what the author is ridiculing in this passage is the frivolity of some rules.

clover, the mare, believes she remembers that the fourth commandment forbade sleeping in beds because it was something that humans did. snowball, napoleon, and the pigs are brain-workers who look after the welfare of the farm. they are the obvious leaders because they are smart, and so they are entitled to eat the best food and sleep in beds. it is squealer, who says these lines making the difference between sleeping with sheets, what humans do, and sleeping in beds, what pigs do. the unwillingness to question authority makes the oppressed to obey without thinking.