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Analepsis vs Prolepsis - What's the difference?

analepsis | prolepsis |

As nouns the difference between analepsis and prolepsis

is that analepsis is a form of flashback in which earlier parts of a narrative are related to others that have already been narrated while prolepsis is the assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it.

analepsis

English

Noun

(analepses)
  • A form of flashback in which earlier parts of a narrative are related to others that have already been narrated
  • (medicine) Recovery of strength after sickness.
  • (medicine) A kind of epileptic attack, originating from gastric disorder.
    • (Webster 1913)

    prolepsis

    English

    Noun

    (prolepses)
  • (rhetoric) The assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it.
  • (logic) The anticipation of an objection to an argument.
  • (grammar, rhetoric) A construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond.
  • (philosophy, epistemology) A so-called "preconception", i.e. a pre-theoretical notion which can lead to true knowledge of the world. (rfex)
  • (botany) Growth in which lateral branches develop from a lateral meristem, after the formation of a bud or following a period of dormancy, when the lateral meristem is split from a terminal meristem.

    • Synonyms

    * (representation of something that has occurred before its time) anachronism, flashforward, foreshadowing * (anticipation of objection to an argument) procatalepsis * left dislocation

    Antonyms

    * (botany) syllepsis

    Derived terms

    * proleptic

    Related terms

    * -lepsy * syllepsis

    References

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