| 单词 | prolepsis |
| 释义 | prolepsis (once / 256942 pages) n WORD FAMILY prolepsis: prolepses USAGE EXAMPLESIn formal rhetoric, prolepsis means the anticipation of possible objections to an argument for the sake of answering them. Wall Street Journal(Jul 13, 2015) The school receives lunches from a program run by Prolepsis, the public health group. New York Times(Apr 18, 2013) Prolepsis.—It frequently happens that branches or whole plants are suddenly defoliated in summer,—e.g. Ward, H. Marshall, Disease in Plants(2012) n anticipating and answering objections in advance Hyper rhetorical device a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) |
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