When We Use Metaphrase?

Metaphrase is a translation term referring to literal translation, i.e., "word by word and line by line" translation. In everyday usage, metaphrase means literalism; however, metaphrase is also the translation of poetry into prose.

What is the difference between metaphrase and paraphrase?

As nouns the difference between metaphrase and paraphrase

is that metaphrase is a literal, word-for-word translation while paraphrase is a restatement of a text in different words, often to clarify meaning.

What is metaphrase and paraphrase?

Metaphrase is literal, word-for-word translation; paraphrase follows the sense of the author, rather than his precise words; imitation departs from the original at the pleasure of the translator, and really constructs a new poem on the basis of the old.