historical present

1. 1.

   the use of the present tense to describe past actions or states

   Broaderpresent

Questions about historical present

What does historical present mean?

historical present means "the use of the present tense to describe past actions or states".

Is historical present a common word?

historical present is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.