prolepsis

noun (plural prolepses /-siːz/)

• 1 Rhetoric the anticipation and answering of possible objections in rhetorical speech.

• 2the representation of a thing as existing before it actually does or did so, as in he was a dead man when he entered.
• literary a figurative device in narrative, in which a future event is prefigured: the destruction of the Vendôme Column and his part in it are foreshadowed in moments of haunting prolepsis