What is an example of a anachronism?

Answer 1

"Anachronistic" means "out of its correct time". Normally it refers to something that is assigned to an earlier time than it belongs to. For example, if you were writing a novel set in the 1960s and you gave your characters mobile phones, it would be anachronistic.

Answer 2

Anachronism: the misplacing of any person, thing, custom, or event outside its proper historical time. T.H. White's "The Once and Future King" is filled with examples of this device. Example: "In the smoky vaults, where once the grubby barons had gnawed their bones with bloody fingers, now there were people eating with clean fingers, which they had washed with herb-scented toilet soap out of wooden bowls." The Once and Future King takes place in the Dark Ages (approx. 1200); the novelty of herb-scented toilet soap is an invention much more modern than appropriate for the time period.
Something that is anachronistic means out of time or place. For example, if you are watching a movie about the civil war and someone is wearing a Timex watch, that would be an anachronism.

Answer 3

An anachronism is the use of a thing, term or image -- in a historical novel, play, or movie -- that did not exist at the time in which the work is set. For example:

Jet trails appear in a movie about American pioneers.

A children's book features a brave Golden Retriever that belonged to Paul Revere. (This breed was developed in the mid 1800's.)

In a play about the Civil War, President Lincoln answers his telephone.

Answer 4

anachronism means:

1: something located at a time when it could not have existed

or occurred.

eg The book is full of anachronisms which suggests there were parts rewritten in later centuries.

2: an artifact that belongs to another time

eg To find a human bone in this mud layer is a bit of an anachronism.

3: a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to

another age

eg The monarchy is something of an anachronism these days.

Answer 5

a thing that exists outside of its typical time period.

Answer 6

It is an abbreviation made by taking the initial letter each of the words included in a phrase or business or regular saying

Answer 7

Queen Victoria talking to Julius Caesar on the Moon while Hitler was eating pancakes in Times' Square in New York.

Answer 8

Did you mean an anachronism? An anachronism is a person, event, or an object that feels as if it belongs in a different time, such as something or someone who seems old fashioned.

Answer 9

An anachronism is something that has no relevance in the current time period. An example is a law in the United States that states that it is illegal to park your giraffe on the sidewalk.

Answer 10

The answer is the anachronism myth.