英语词汇“historic present”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

historic present

noun [mass noun] Grammar

The present tense used instead of the past in vivid narrative, especially in titles, such as ‘The Empire Strikes Back’, and informally in speech, e.g. ‘so I say to him’.It includes historic present, but for the moment no attempt is made to identify instances of this....

In Bell's opinion the historic present in English is an exciting, but unusual, narrative strategy.
This might only be a literary device or literary preference, since use of the historic present vivifies the action.

单词	historic present
释义	historic present noun [mass noun] Grammar The present tense used instead of the past in vivid narrative, especially in titles, such as ‘The Empire Strikes Back’, and informally in speech, e.g. ‘so I say to him’.It includes historic present, but for the moment no attempt is made to identify instances of this.... In Bell's opinion the historic present in English is an exciting, but unusual, narrative strategy. This might only be a literary device or literary preference, since use of the historic present vivifies the action.
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