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Anachronism: Someone or something belonging to another time period than the one in which it is described as being.

Postmodernism: A general (and often hotly debated) label referring to the philosophical, artistic, and literary changes and tendencies after the 1940s and 1950s up to the present day. We can speak of postm . . . View Full Definition

Lollard: (possibly from Dutch, 'mumbler') Lollards were heretics in the 1300s and 1400s associated with a variety of causes including (1) translation of the scripture into English, (2) the right of w . . . View Full Definition

Chaucerism: In the Renaissance, experimental revivals and new word formations that were consciously designed to imitate the sounds, the 'feel,' and verbal patterns from an older century--a verbal or gra . . . View Full Definition

Anastrophe: Inverted order of words or events as a rhetorical scheme. Anastrophe is specifically a type of hyperbaton in which the adjective appears after the noun when we expect to find the adjective b . . . View Full Definition