Paraphrasing memorable words
Paraphrase: "a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording." Quoting a text in one´s own words, I would say. The opening words of Salinger´s The Catcher in the Rye (1951) are: "If you really want to know about it, the first think you´ll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don´t feel like going into it..." The main character is Holden Caufield, writing that. Woody Allen has recently published his memoirs, "Apropos of Nothing" and he starts with: "Like Holden, I don´t feel like going into all that David Copperfield kind of crap, although in my case, a little about my parents you may find more interesting than reading about me." This paraphrase of Woody Allen´s presuposes we know who Holden is, what the cr...