Prolepsis
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Prolepsis may refer to:
- Flashforward, in storytelling, an interjected scene that takes the narrative forward
- Prolepsis (album), 1975 work by Arrogance
- Procatalepsis, or prebuttal, a figure of speech in which the speaker raises an objection to their own argument and then immediately answers it.
- Cataphora, linguistics term to describe an expression that co-refers with a later expression in the discourse
- Déjà vu, the experience of feeling sure that one has already witnessed or experienced a current situation
- Foreshadowing, literary technique to give clues to allow a reader to predict what will happen
- Prolepsis, or preconceptions, one of the three criteria of truth in Epicureanism
- The experience of having the anticipation of something not yet come to pass to impact the present moment, such as experiencing the reality of a future event in the present. This is the mirror image of anamnesis. An example would be the experience of a burning taste in your mouth when you think about tasting a lemon, or the euphoric experience of anticipation of being with God when you sing the powerful words of Amazing Grace about being in Heaven for ten thousand years, which has not yet come to pass.
[edit] See also
- Proslepsis, figures of speech
- Proleptic (disambiguation)
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