Rebuttal of anticipated objections.
A rhetorical exercise in which the speaker raises an objection to his own argument and then immediately answers it, in an attempt to strengthen the argument by dealing with possible counter-arguments.
Left dislocation.
The anticipation of an objection to an argument.
Growth in which lateral branches develop from a lateral meristem, after the formation of a bud or following a period of dormancy, when the lateral meristem is split from a terminal meristem.
A construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond.
A so-called "preconception", i.e. a pre-theoretical notion which can lead to true knowledge of the world.
The practice of placing information about the ending of a story near the beginning, as a literary device.
The assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it.