Flashforward vs Prolepsis - What's the difference?
flashforward | prolepsis | Synonyms |
a dramatic device in which a future event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.
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(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.
Prolepsis is a synonym of flashforward.
As nouns the difference between flashforward and prolepsis
is that flashforward is a dramatic device in which a future event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative while prolepsis is the assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it.flashforward
English
(wikipedia flashforward)Alternative forms
* flash-forwardNoun
(en noun)- This "Lone Ranger" begins and ends in a flash-forward , with an elderly Tonto installed in a carnival diorama behind a sign that reads "The Noble Savage."