prolepsis

noun6

1. •
   The practice of placing information about the ending of a story near the beginning, as a literary device.
2. •
   (rhetoric) A construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond.
3. •
   (rhetoric) The anticipation of an objection to an argument.

   • Prolepsis makes objections; then replies; And wisely thus anticipates surprise. — 1835
4. •
   (rhetoric) The assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it.
5. •
   A so-called "preconception", i.e., a pre-theoretical notion which can lead to true knowledge of the world.
6. •
   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.