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prolepsis::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Type of | rhetorical device |
Examples of prolepsis
prolepsis
Also called prolepsis, an interjected scene that temporarily jumps the narrative forward in time.
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The term prolepsis was used by Epicureans to describe the way the mind forms general concepts from sense perceptions.
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Several tales in the One Thousand and One Nights use this device to foreshadow what is going to happen, as a special form of literary prolepsis.
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Its use in this context could be prolepsis, as the British countryside he is describing would become the burial ground of his dead comrades and heroes from World War I.
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- Anticipating and answering objections in advance
- Prolepsis is the second album by the North Carolina band Arrogance, released in 1975 (see 1975 in music).
- The assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it; The anticipation of an objection to an argument; A construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond; A so-called "preconception", i.e. ...
- A hyperplastic symptom of disease in which organs appear before the natural time. (Pl. prolepses.) (20)
- A figure of speech where an event in the future is referred to and anticipated. See flashback and in media res.
- A literary device in which a future state is spoken of in the present; for example, a condemned man may be called a "dead man walking".
- A literary device, particularly in prophecy, where the prophet treats an event as past when it is yet to occur. In Matt 22:38 Jesus refers to the destruction of Jerusalem as if one can see it now, although it will not happen for decades. ...
- Speaking or acting upon something anticipated as if it were done or existing. "I'm a dead man, now!" Alternately, positioning a relative clause before its antecedent. "Consider the lilies of the field how they grow." See also: procatalepsis.
