prolepsis
/prəʊˈlepsɪs/noun
(pl. prolepses /-siːz/) ［mass noun］
1
- Rhetoric the anticipation and answering of possible objections in rhetorical speech【修辞】预辩法。
1.1
- poetic/literary anticipation〈诗/文〉预期。
2
- the representation of a thing as existing before it actually does or did so, as in he was a dead man when he entered预词法（如he was a dead man when he entered）。
派生词
proleptic
adjective词源
late Middle English (as a term in rhetoric)： via late Latin from Greek prolēpsis,from prolambanein 'anticipate'，from pro 'before'+lambanein 'take'.