| 词条 | prolepsis |
| 释义 | prolepsis literature a figure of speech in which a future act or development is represented as if already accomplished or existing. The following lines from John Keats's “Isabella” (1820), for example, proleptically anticipate the assassination of a living character: So the two brothers and their murdered man Rode past fair Florence The word may also refer to the anticipation of objections to an argument, a tactic aimed at weakening the force of such objections. |
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