can someone give me an example of an ANACHRONISM?

Question

i'm supposed to come up with an example of an anachronism and describe how it IS an anachronism. thanks. :]

Answer 1

An anachronism is when something occurs out of its proper time. For example, if I were to write a book about the Civil war that included tanks, this would be an anachronism because the two elements didn't exist in the same time period. Another example of an anachronism would be a novel about the future where there's space ships, but the characters battle with swords. Sometimes anachronisms are intentional, other times they're accidental. I watched a movie that was made recently, but was supposed to take place in the 80's, and there's a scene where the character is eating a bag of M&M's, and there were blue M&M's. Well blue M&M's weren't made until the mid 90's. This is a minor anachromism.

Answer 2

Today, when word processing is done entirely on computers, a typewriter would be an anachronism. I wonder whetherthey are even sold any more?

There's supposedly a video of officials autopsying a space alien that was allegedly taken from that UFO crash in New Mexico in the mid-40s. A lot of beiievers insist that the UFO and its occupants were real...but in the video, a keypad phone is visible on the wall. Keypad phones had not been invented at the time of the supposed crash - it's an anachronism that confrims the video to be a fraud.

Answer 3

Children under 18 know everything these days anyway so here I go....

Sodomy used to be illegal in many states, but has been repealed due to the law being enacted when Christian morals influenced law - so illegal sodomy would be an anachronism.

Sorry for the extreme example, but the word anachronism comes from the Greek for against time. The Capital One credit card commercials with Vikings could be another example of anachronisms.

Answer 4

Well… I usually do not do other people’s homework, (which your clearly asking us to do here) but it is early – at least here it is – and I am bored, so why not.

First off, it is important to know the word's definition:

ANACHRONISM (noun): something or someone that is *not* in its correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time.

Therefore, an example could be a sword is an anachronism in modern warfare.

Answer 5

do not pretend to plead the immunities of my order so highly as this; but neither will I allow that the author of a modern antique romance is obliged to confine himself to the introduction of those manners only which can be proved to have absolutely existed in the times he is depicting, so that he restrain himself to such as are plausible and natural, and contain no obvious anachronism.
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter

The representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than chronological, proper, or historical order.
One that is out of its proper or chronological order, especially a person or practice that belongs to an earlier time:

"A new age had plainly dawned, an age that made the institution of a segregated picnic seem an anachronism" (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.).

Answer 6

A good example of this would be concrete, being used in the past by various ancient cultures only to be forgotten about and then re-invented at a later time by another culture, until the present, at which point the technology is employed globally and unlikely to slip into obscurity again.