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Example of anachronsim

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16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

ANACHRONISM:an event, object, custom, person, or thing that is out of order in time; some anachronisms are unintentional, such as when an actor performing Shakespeare forgets to take off his watch; others are deliverately used to achieve a humorous or satiric effect, such a s the sustained anachronism of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Aurthur's Court

example--A writer could refer to William the Conqueror phoning London. As the telephone was not invented until 1867, this would be an anachronism. ANACHRONISM:an event, object, custom, person, or thing that is out of order in time; some anachronisms are unintentional, such as when an actor performing Shakespeare forgets to take off his watch; others are deliverately used to achieve a humorous or satiric effect, such a s the sustained anachronism of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Aurthur's Court

example--A writer could refer to William the Conqueror phoning London. As the telephone was not invented until 1867, this would be an anachronism. ANACHRONISM:an event, object, custom, person, or thing that is out of order in time; some anachronisms are unintentional, such as when an actor performing Shakespeare forgets to take off his watch; others are deliverately used to achieve a humorous or satiric effect, such a s the sustained anachronism of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Aurthur's Court

example--A writer could refer to William the Conqueror phoning London. As the telephone was not invented until 1867, this would be an anachronism. ANACHRONISM:an event, object, custom, person, or thing that is out of order in time; some anachronisms are unintentional, such as when an actor performing Shakespeare forgets to take off his watch; others are deliverately used to achieve a humorous or satiric effect, such a s the sustained anachronism of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Aurthur's Court

example--A writer could refer to William the Conqueror phoning London. As the telephone was not invented until 1867, this would be an anachronism.

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