Flashforward vs. Prolepsis — What's the Difference?

A flashforward (also spelled flash-forward, and more formally known as prolepsis) is a scene that temporarily takes the narrative forward in time from the current point of the story in literature, film, television and other media. Flashforwards are often used to represent events expected, projected, or imagined to occur in the future.

The anachronistic representation of something as existing before its proper or historical time, as in the precolonial United States.

(authorship) A dramatic device in which a future event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.

The assignment of something, such as an event or name, to a time that precedes it, as in If you tell the cops, you're a dead man.

To use this dramatic device.

The use of a descriptive word in anticipation of the act or circumstances that would make it applicable, as dry in They drained the lake dry.

The anticipation and answering of an objection or argument before one's opponent has put it forward.

(rhetoric) The assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it.

(logic) The anticipation of an objection to an argument.

A construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond.

A so-called "preconception", i.e. a pre-theoretical notion which can lead to true knowledge of the world.

(botany) 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.

(authorship) The practice of placing information about the ending of a story near the beginning, as a literary device.

A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented.

An error in chronology, consisting in an event being dated before the actual time.

The application of an adjective to a noun in anticipation, or to denote the result, of the action of the verb; as, to strike one dumb.

Anticipating and answering objections in advance