Proleps
Prolepse or Prolepsis (lat. Prolepsis , from Greek πρόληψις prólēpsis "anticipation") stands for:
- Prolepsis (botany) , the early expulsion of sprouts
- Prolepsis (medicine) , the earlier onset of a disease
- Prolepsis (philosophy) , the preliminary term (especially in Epicureanism)
- in rhetoric the anticipation of an opposing objection, see Prokatalepsis
- in stylistics the anticipation of an event in an attribute, see anticipation (stylistics)
- in narrative theory the pre-interpretation, see epic pre-interpretation , fade-in and anticipation (literature)