prolepsis

Example Sentences

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Through its use of foreshadowing and prolepsis, “The Arabian Nights” consistently fosters a fatalistic sense that no one can escape his or her destiny.

From Washington Post • Jun. 11, 2019

In fact, Fo makes explicit reference to the theater throughout, and uses borrowed techniques — including a visual “proscenium,” prolepsis, asides, interludes, shifting scenes and the dismantling of the fourth wall.

From Washington Post • Aug. 10, 2015

In formal rhetoric, prolepsis means the anticipation of possible objections to an argument for the sake of answering them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 13, 2015

This is a prolepsis; for the battle was fought in 1640.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 by Various

But there is a curious prolepsis of the spermatozoa-theory.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 02 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir