paraphrasable

In particular, Mark Booth questions "why, in this carefully polished writing.... are the lines sometimes relatively hard to read for their paraphrasable sense?"

Another reason was that his compression of style and his individual imagery make him an extraordinarily difficult poet, especially for those who seek a paraphrasable meaning in poetry.

But somehow what we usually think of as the content of a film is not where we are used to finding it, in a dramatic structure attached to paraphrasable themes or ideas.

In doing so, Brooks brings up another central tenet of his critical theory, one which he will deal with more explicitly in the coming chapters: the notion that no true poem can ever be reduced to its paraphrasable prose content.

The hastily assembled book of Forrest's wit and wisdom, which quickly ascended the best-seller lists, seems to be positive evidence, but, to paraphrase the most eminently paraphrasable scrivener of all, 'tis not a consummation devoutly to be wished.

Let us use SENSE to refer to the basic logical, conceptual, paraphrasable meaning, and SIGNIFICANCE to refer to the total of what is communicated to the world by a given sentence or text.

The error of so many critics and scholars is to write as if the paraphrasable elements in literature constituted its substance, whereas the value of literature is to be found not in propositions, but in relationships, and these relationships are not logical, but imaginative.

Brooks argues "through irony, paradox, ambiguity and other rhetorical and poetic devices of his or her art, the poet works constantly to resist any reduction of the poem to a paraphrasable core, favoring the presentation of conflicting facets of theme and patterns of resolved stresses" (Leitch 2001).