Allusion vs Prolepsis - What's the difference?
allusion | prolepsis |
An indirect reference; a hint; a reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned; a covert indication.
(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.