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The document defines and provides examples of the term prolepsis which refers to different rhetorical devices, literary techniques, and philosophical concepts including flashforwards and anticipating future events.

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Prolepsis

The document defines and provides examples of the term prolepsis which refers to different rhetorical devices, literary techniques, and philosophical concepts including flashforwards and anticipating future events.

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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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