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Prolepsis vs Proslepsis - What's the difference?

prolepsis | proslepsis |

In rhetoric terms the difference between prolepsis and proslepsis

is that prolepsis is the assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it while proslepsis is the pretence of passing over a subject while at the same time describing it fully.

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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    proslepsis

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (rhetoric) The pretence of passing over a subject while at the same time describing it fully.

    • Related terms

    * apophasis * paraleipsis

    See also

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