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prolepsis noun

  /pɹoʊˈlɛpsɪs/
  • (rhetoric) 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.
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