prolepsis
noun
[ prəʊˈlɛpsɪs ]
• the anticipation and answering of possible objections in rhetorical speech.
• the representation of a thing as existing before it actually does or did so, as in he was a dead man when he entered.
• "the destruction of the Vendôme Column and his part in it are foreshadowed in moments of haunting prolepsis"
Origin:
late Middle English (as a term in rhetoric): via late Latin from Greek prolēpsis, from prolambanein ‘anticipate’, from pro ‘before’ + lambanein ‘take’.
