prolepsis in a sentence
Examples
- In later life Dawson turned his attention to English philology, issuing in 1806 a " prolepsis " of a new English dictionary, and a specimen of the dictionary itself.
- The Straw Man argument, an informal fallacy in which one misrepresents an opposing argument in order to further one's own, can serve as an example of misused prolepsis.
- The correct use of prolepsis is still an effective tactic in an argument, since it allows the rhetor to answer opponents before they have a chance to raise the counterargument themselves.
- Almost all scholars today view this as historical prolepsis, on Hatshepsut's part since it was Thutmose II a son of Thutmose I by Mutnofret who was her father's heir.
- The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism states that there are three distinct theoretical uses of prolepsis : argumentation, literary discussion, and conjunction with narratological analyses of the order of events.
- As a linguistic phenomenon found in both classic and current languages, prolepsis is described as the construction whereby the subject of a subordinate clause occurs by anticipation as an object in the main clause.
- He uses, for instance, prolepsis to make arguments that introduced his research findings, and he provided a metaphoric map as a means to guide his audience ( Ceccarelli 57-58 ).
- Another interesting use of symbolism is the " ominous bird a-wing ", a possible prolepsis to the final stanza, the ominous bird representing his now shattered trust, against an almost paganistic suggestion in " ominous ".
- A more nuanced, mainly implied, critique came from J�rgen Moltmann, whose philosophical roots lay in the Left Hegelians, Karl Marx and Ernst Bloch, and who proposed and elaborated a Theology of Hope, rather than of prolepsis, as a distinctively Christian response to History.
- The first, a theophany, goes from strophe 37 to 40; the second, which in chronological-narrative terms is a prolepsis, occupies strophes 41 to 48; finally, the third part, a marine eclogue with some points of contact with �cloga III of Cam�es, ends in strophe 59.