英语词汇“prolepsis”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

prolepsis

/prəʊˈlɛpsɪs

/ /prəʊˈliːpsɪs/

noun (plural prolepses /prəʊˈlɛpsiːz/) [mass noun]

1 Rhetoric The anticipation and answering of possible objections in rhetorical speech.Drexler's book Engines of Creation is an extraordinary exercise in prolepsis: he meticulously refutes every technical objection he can anticipate....

For Gilio, prolepsis was a ‘figure,’ a rhetorical device employed to augment the beauty of the work.

2The representation of a thing as existing before it actually does or did so, as in he was a dead man when he entered.

2.1 literary A figurative device in narrative, in which a future event is prefigured: the destruction of the Vendôme Column and his part in it are foreshadowed in moments of haunting prolepsis...

He falls back first on a venerable narrative device: prolepsis or foreshadowing.

Derivatives

proleptic

/prəʊˈlɛptɪk/ adjective ...

The anti-Arcadian proleptic elegies of the late 1930s, in other words, and the critique of consolatory language they offer, can be said to have opened up a path toward the welfare state.
Anticipation is intuitively, ironically proleptic in that it both foresees things in their absence and, in the very act of apprehension, presents them unwittingly into being.
In formulation, the utterance is predictive or proleptic (he will imminently pour himself a drink, check the contents of the bottle).

Origin

Late Middle English (as a term in rhetoric): via late Latin from Greek prolēpsis, from prolambanein 'anticipate', from pro 'before' + lambanein 'take'.

单词	prolepsis
释义	prolepsis /prəʊˈlɛpsɪs / /prəʊˈliːpsɪs/ noun (plural prolepses /prəʊˈlɛpsiːz/) [mass noun] 1 Rhetoric The anticipation and answering of possible objections in rhetorical speech.Drexler's book Engines of Creation is an extraordinary exercise in prolepsis: he meticulously refutes every technical objection he can anticipate.... For Gilio, prolepsis was a ‘figure,’ a rhetorical device employed to augment the beauty of the work. 2The representation of a thing as existing before it actually does or did so, as in he was a dead man when he entered. 2.1 literary A figurative device in narrative, in which a future event is prefigured: the destruction of the Vendôme Column and his part in it are foreshadowed in moments of haunting prolepsis... He falls back first on a venerable narrative device: prolepsis or foreshadowing. Derivatives proleptic /prəʊˈlɛptɪk/ adjective ... The anti-Arcadian proleptic elegies of the late 1930s, in other words, and the critique of consolatory language they offer, can be said to have opened up a path toward the welfare state. Anticipation is intuitively, ironically proleptic in that it both foresees things in their absence and, in the very act of apprehension, presents them unwittingly into being. In formulation, the utterance is predictive or proleptic (he will imminently pour himself a drink, check the contents of the bottle). Origin Late Middle English (as a term in rhetoric): via late Latin from Greek prolēpsis, from prolambanein 'anticipate', from pro 'before' + lambanein 'take'. Rhymes sepsis, syllepsis
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prolepsis

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proleptic

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