Prolepsis

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Prolepsis may refer to:

  • Prolepsis (rhetoric), a figure of speech in which the speaker raises an objection and then immediately answers it
  • Prolepsis (literary), anticipating action, a flash forward, see Foreshadowing
  • Cataphora, using an expression or word that co-refers with a later expression in the discourse
  • Flashforward, in storytelling, an interjected scene that represent events in the future
  • Prolepsis, one of the three criteria of truth in Epicureanism
  • Prolepsis (fly), a genus of robber flies
  • Prolepsis (album), by Arrogance

See also

  • Déjà vu, the experience of feeling sure that one has already witnessed or experienced a current situation
  • Paralipsis, providing full details or drawing attention to something while pretending to pass it over
  • Proleptic (disambiguation)
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