Stylistics of synonyms and homonyms

Synonyms are close in meaning but differ in the style they belong to, in emotional-expressive colouring and in degree of meaning: for example zo‘r (“great”) belongs to conversation, benazir (“unparalleled”) to the bookish style. Choosing them correctly makes thought exact and effective and avoids repeating the same word one after another. Homonyms are words that are written and said in the same way but have different meanings (yosh – “young; age” and “tear”; o‘t – “fire” and “grass”). If they are used wrongly, meaning becomes confused, but if used deliberately, they create wordplay, irony and puns. Paronyms are words with similar sound and different meaning (asr – “century”, asir – “captive”; ahd – “promise”, ahl – “people”), and mixing them is a stylistic mistake. The tuyuq of classical literature is a quatrain based on homonyms.