Prolepsis

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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