prolepsis in English

noun
1
the anticipation and answering of possible objections in rhetorical speech.
Drexler's book Engines of Creation is an extraordinary exercise in prolepsis : he meticulously refutes every technical objection he can anticipate.
2
the representation of a thing as existing before it actually does or did so, as in he was a dead man when he entered.

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1. Notes on Conceptualisms thus entered the debate, in 2009, with an epic timing belied by its diminutive format: in medias res, and with a strangely belated prolepsis

2. Notes on Conceptualisms thus entered the debate, in 2009, with an epic timing belied by its diminutive format: in medias res, and with a strangely belated prolepsis

3. Furthermore, the "order", the sequence of narrated events - either natural succession or sequence anachronism (prolepsis, i.e. anticipation); analepsis, a flashback) - and the "frequency", that is the repeated narration of identical or equivalent events - discussed.

4. The technical term for preliminaries of this kind in literary study is "prolepsis"--that is to say, the form of anticipation which, in a certain sense, covers what will be talked about later.