Subtitle: Containing Full Instruction, and Practice Lessons So Arranged That Any Person, Without the Aid of a Teacher, May Be Able to Master the English Language, Learn to Think and Talk on the Feet Easily and Readily, and Become Excellent Extemporaneous Speakers and Conversationalists. Complete in One Volume. With Lessons Arranged for Daily Practice General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1889 Original Publisher: The Martyn College Press Subjects: Oratory Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SIX. PARAPHRASING. The work now before us is of the utmost importance, and will call forth the talent and genius of each pupil. If we look into the dictionary for the definition of the word paraphrasing we find the following: –
Paraphrase – A re-statement of a text, passage, or word, expressing the meaning of the original in an other form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition; a setting forth in other and more ample terms; a free translation into the same or another language:
‘In paraphrase, or translation with latitude, the author’s words are not so strictly followed as his sense.’ Dryden. It is the latter definition which we prefer, or in short a free translation. In Oral Translations the exact thoughts were reproduced with a minuteness that is not employed in the present work. By this time the pupil ought -to have a command over language that will enable him to find the means of expression very readily and very effectively. To put into active use these valuable implements is our present purpose. The simplest method of acquiring the art of paraphrasing is to divide the exercises into three series: first, the series of anecdotes; second, the series fro…