Metaphrast

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person who uses metaphrase to re-cast a text in a different form, for example from poetry to prose.

    "A metaphrast has re-written Ian McEwan's book Atonement as a poem."

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"A metaphrast has re-written Ian McEwan's book Atonement as a poem."

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