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In narratives using present tense, the events of the plot are depicted as occurring in the narrator's current moment of time. A recent example of novels narrated in the present tense are those of the ''[[Hunger Games]]'' trilogy by [[Suzanne Collins]]. Present tense can also be used to narrate events in the reader's past. This is known as "[[historical present]]".<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Schiffrin|first1=Deborah|date=March 1981|title=Tense Variation in Narrative|journal=Language|volume=57|issue=1|pages=45–62|doi=10.2307/414286|issn=0097-8507|jstor=414286}}</ref> This tense is more common in spontaneous conversational narratives than in written literature, though it is sometimes used in literature to give a sense of immediacy of the actions. [[Screenplay]] action is also written in the present tense.
The future tense is the most rare, portraying the events of the plot as occurring some time after the narrator's present. Often, these upcoming events are described such that the narrator has foreknowledge (or supposed foreknowledge) of their future, so many future-tense stories have a [[prophecy|prophetic]]
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