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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=linguistics">linguistics</a> and <a href="page.php?w=rhetoric">rhetoric</a>, the <b>historical present</b> or <b>historic present</b>, also called <b>dramatic present</b> or <b>narrative present</b>, is the employment of the <a href="page.php?w=present_tense">present tense</a> instead of <a href="page.php?w=past_tense">past tense</a>s when narrating past events. It is also often called the "literary present tense". It is typically thought to heighten the dramatic force of the narrative by describing events as if they were</p><p>
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