prolepsis

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The name Prolepsis is also applied to the introduction of a noun or pronoun as object of the main clause where we should expect it to stand as subject of a subordinate clause.

From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)

If this Inference be not something like an Anachronism or Prolepsis, I'll look once more into my Lexicons for the true Meaning of the Words.

From Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare by Smith, David Nichol

If this Inference be not something like an Anachronism or Prolepsis, I’ll look once more into my Lexicons for the true Meaning of the Words.

From Preface to the Works of Shakespeare (1734) by Dick, Hugh G.

Both varieties of Prolepsis are chiefly confined to poetry.

From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)