rehearsal vs retelling

rehearsal

noun
  • The act of rehearsing or contriving something; the fact of something's being rehearsed. 

  • A preparatory activity analogous to the rehearsal of a show. 

  • The practicing of something which is to be performed before an audience, usually to test or improve the interaction between several participating people, or to allow technical adjustments with respect to staging to be done. 

retelling

noun
  • A new, changed, or adapted version of a story. 

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