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)

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.