recapitulate vs retell

recapitulate

verb
  • To summarize or repeat in concise form. 

  • (biology, of an organism) To mirror or repeat in analogous form, especially in reference to an individual's development passing through stages corresponding to the species' stages of evolutionary development. 

  • To reproduce or closely resemble (as in structure or function). 

retell

verb
  • To tell again, often differently, what one has read or heard; to paraphrase. 

How often have the words recapitulate and retell occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )