Metaphrase is a term referring to literal translation, i.e., "word by word and line by line"[1] translation. In everyday usage, metaphrase means literalism; however, metaphrase is also the translation of poetry into prose.[2] Unlike "paraphrase," which has an ordinary use in literature theory, the term "metaphrase" is only used in translation theory.[3]
Metaphrase is one of the three ways of transferring, along with paraphrase and imitation,[4] according to John Dryden. Dryden considers paraphrase preferable to metaphrase (as literal translation) and imitation.
The term metaphrase was first used by Philo Judaeus (20 BCE) in De vita Mosis.[4] Quintilian draws a distinction between metaphrase and paraphrase in the pedagogical practice of imitation and reworking of classical texts; he points out that metaphrase changes a word, and paraphrase, a phrase: a distinction that is also followed by Renaissance scholars.[3]
^Ovid's Epistles, Preface by John Dryden, London: Jacob Tonson, 1681, cited in Baker, Malmkjær, p. 153
^Andrew Dousa Hepburn, Manual of English Rhetoric, BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2008, ISBN 0-559-76232-1, p.18
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maint: location missing publisher (link). Hunger, Herbert (1981), Anonyme Metaphrase zu Anna Komnene, Alexias XI–XIII. Ein Beitrag zur Erschließung der byzantinischen...
scene. In his own words, The way I have taken, is not so streight as Metaphrase, nor so loose as Paraphrase: Some things too I have omitted, and sometimes...
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a New Song", for SATB Chorus and Band (or Piano) (publ. Presser) 1991 Metaphrase on Lines from Shakespeare, for Concert Band (publ. Merion/Presser) The...
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honoured lord, John King, late Bishop of London;' (3) 'The Song of Songs metaphrased in English heroicks.' Anthony a Wood, sub 'John Argall', writes: 'Now...
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