Question

How does paraphrasing help readers understand poetry?

A. It inspires readers to come up with their own allusions, and paradoxes when reading poems.
B. It helps readers understand what the meaning is behind different types of figurative language.
C. It maintains archaic terms so as not to change the meaning of the poem.
D. It allows the reader to create his or her own meanings for the similes and metaphors.

the anwer is D

Answer 1

It helps readers to understand what the meaning is behind different types of figurative language.

Step-by-step explanation:

Part of the definition of paraphrasing, given by Cambridge Dictionary is "to repeat something read or spoken using different words."

As speakers, we always select the words we know, specially when we find the ones we don't. Poetry sometimes uses complex language or rhetorical devices, which can make it difficult to understand. Rephrasing helps the reader understand the meaning by using words that are closer to the speaker (because he chooses the words) and not some words or images to which the reader is not related.

Answer 2

The answer is B. It helps readers understand what the meaning is behind different types of figurative language.

Paraphrasing means to simplify a text and give a shorter version of what is written by just picking out the most important aspects of the text and summarizing them. This enables the reader to understand better the meaning behind the text.