Need help to figure a literary term (not sure what to call it).

[elocs]

Now a palindrome is a word or word that is the same backwards as it is forward. I am wondering if there is a name for a phrase that is spelled one way, but phonetically has another meaning. My examples really say the same thing: isle of view, or isle of ewe. I am guessing that there must be an actual term for it. Any ideas? TIA

[Reader Rabbit]

1. That's a pun, isn't it?

Piers Anthony's Xanth series all had titles like that.

[elocs]

2. Damn, that is probably right. That was too simple.

I wasn't thinking "pun" at all. I actually use them a lot myself so I don't know why it didn't occur to me. Thanks.

[Orrex]

3. It fits, but not in all cases IMO

A phrase only because a pun if its deployed in that fashion or deliberately identified as such. If you were simply to refer to an island full of female sheep, it wouldn't necessarily be a pun unless someone interepreted it as an expression of affection.

But the phonetic similarity remains whether a pun is intended or not.

Perhaps homophone is more like what you had in mind?

[elocs]

4. I think in the example I gave that it would be the being deliberately deployed in that fashion

that would make it a pun. Maybe it is a pun with homophonic tendencies. In Scotland, there actually is an Isle of Ewe. Who would have figured (but then it's Scotland).