Test Prep

The term is Paraphrase. The definition the book has is "to render freely, or amplify, a passage, or express its sense in other words."
True or False: Paraphrasing means to "refer indirectly to something presumably known to the listener or reader.
True or False: Paraphrasing in poetry is usually set off with quotations.

An example of a paraphrased poem:

Sonnet 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?: Shall I compare you to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate: You are more lovely and more constant:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May: stormy winds shake May flower
And summer's lease hath all too short a date: And summer is far too short:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines: At times the sun is too hot,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd: Or often goes behind the clouds;
And every fair from fair sometime declines: And everything beautiful sometime will lose its beauty,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd: By misfortune or by nature's planned out course.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade: But your youth shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest: even death will not take you away from beauty,
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade: Nor will death claim you for his own,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest: Because in my eternal verse you will live forever.
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see: So long as there are people on this earth,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee: So long will this poem live on, making you immortal