Anachronism
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Anachronism is a literary term describing an object that appears in a time period it logically shouldn't.
An example of an anachronism would be a motorcycle rider in the American Civil War.
An anachronism in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar was a mechanical clock, which did not exist in the time in which the play was set.