Prolepsis

Prolepsis [pro-LEP-sis]

Part of speech: noun
Origin: Ancient Greek, 15th century

1. The anticipation and answering of possible objections in rhetorical speech.
2. The representation of a thing as existing before it actually does or did so, as in he was a dead man when he entered.

Examples of prolepsis in a sentence

"Tyrell expected objections, so he tried to include answers to possible questions in a prolepsis of his proposal to the HOA."

"The new biography of Charlie Chaplin begins with his birth, then in a prolepsis, jumps to the height of his fame."