Prolepsis in a sentence

Prolepsis meaning

1. The assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it.
2. The anticipation of an objection to an argument.
3. A construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond.

Using Prolepsis

• The main meaning on this page is: The assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it. | The anticipation of an objection to an argument. | A construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond.
• Useful related words include: rhetorical device.
• In the example corpus, prolepsis often appears in combinations such as: preconceptions prolepsis.

Context around Prolepsis

• Average sentence length in these examples: 21.7 words
• Position in the sentence: 1 start, 1 middle, 1 end
• Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

Corpus analysis for Prolepsis

• In this selection, "prolepsis" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
• Around the word, preconceptions stand out and add context to how "prolepsis" is used.
• Recognizable usage signals include aisthêsis preconceptions prolepsis and feelings and example of prolepsis is the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
• By corpus frequency, "prolepsis" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aacl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.