different between prolepsis vs proslepsis

English

Etymology

From Latin prolepsis, from Ancient Greek ???????? (pról?psis, “preconception, anticipation”), from ?????????? (prolambán?, “take beforehand, anticipate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?o??l?ps?s/

Noun

prolepsis (countable and uncountable, plural prolepses)

1. (rhetoric) The assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it.
2. (logic) The anticipation of an objection to an argument.
3. (grammar, rhetoric) A construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond.
4. (philosophy, epistemology) A so-called "preconception", i.e. a pre-theoretical notion which can lead to true knowledge of the world.
5. (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.
6. (authorship) The practice of placing information about the ending of a story near the beginning, as a literary device.

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

• (botany): syllepsis

Derived terms

• proleptic

Related terms

• -lepsy
• syllepsis

Translations

References

• Silva Rhetoricae

English

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ????????? (prósl?psis).

Noun

proslepsis (uncountable)

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

Related terms

• apophasis
• paraleipsis

See also

• proslepsis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia