rhetoric, the historical present or historic present, also called dramatic present or narrative present, is the employment of the present tense instead...

In literary and historical analysis, presentism is a term for the introduction of present-day ideas and perspectives into depictions or interpretations...

Similarly, in the historical present, the present tense is used to narrate events that occurred in the past. There are two common types of present tense form...

of a story in the present tense (see historical present), and in such contexts as newspaper headlines, where it replaces the present perfect: In Hamlet...

a list of historical regions in present-day Ukraine. The traditional names of the regions of Ukraine are important geographic, historical, and ethnographic...

Presentism may refer to: Presentism (historical analysis) Philosophical presentism Presenteeism This disambiguation page lists articles associated with...

motion. The present may also be viewed as a duration. Contemporary history describes the historical timeframe immediately relevant to the present time and...

half their quotations from the Old Testament. The "historical present" tense is a term used for present tense verbs that are used in some narrative sections...

adventure films, and swashbucklers. Historical drama can be differentiated from historical fiction, which generally present fictional characters and events...

conclusions). This type of historical revisionism can present a re-interpretation of the moral meaning of the historical record. Negationists use the...

present tense to be used when referring to no particular real time (as when telling a story), or when recounting past events (the historical present,...

linguistic phenomena only at a given time, usually the present, but a synchronic analysis of a historical language form is also possible. It may be distinguished...

past that should be avoided in the present." According to Friedrich Schleiermacher, historical theology is a historical discipline, one that approaches areas...

Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the setting of particular real historical events. Although the term is...

are danced in the present. Today historical dances are danced as performance, for pleasure at themed balls or dance clubs, as historical reenactment, or...

Historical negationism, also called historical denialism, is falsification or distortion of the historical record. This is not the same as historical...

Past & Present is a British historical academic journal, which has been a leading force in the development of social history. Founded in 1952, the journal...

changes List of city name changes List of national border changes (1914–present) – List of changes in national borders between nations since 1914 Lists...

Historical Theology Ellacuría meant a way of making theology: to reflect about faith from the historical present and to reflect about the historical present...

Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present (1990) Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective (1992) After the End...

Greek does not have a historical present tense, but rather uses injunctives. Injunctives are replaced by the historical present in the post-Homeric writings...

The term "historical Jesus" refers to the life and teachings of Jesus as interpreted through critical historical methods, in contrast to what are traditionally...

time-referential meaning in every case. For instance, the historical present is a use of the present tense to refer to past events. The phenomenon of fake...

independently only reflect a past, present, or future state of the company. Financial plans are the collection of the historical, present, and future financial statements;...

of demarcation between prehistoric and historical times is crossed when people cease to live only in the present, and become consciously interested both...

Pickett's Charge presented during the 1913 Gettysburg reunion, or as broad as an entire period, such as Regency reenactment. While historical reenactors are...

Before Present (BP) or "years before present (YBP)" is a time scale used mainly in archaeology, geology, and other scientific disciplines to specify when...

Presented below is a list of the lists of historical separatist movements by continent: List of historical separatist movements in Africa List of historical...

in the historical profession. The journal was founded in 1923 as The Cambridge Historical Journal by Harold Temperley. It obtained its present title in...

earlier stage of a language's development without covering present-day usage at all. A historical dictionary is primarily of interest to scholars of language...