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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)
Topics referred to by the same term