prolepsis

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

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.

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.

Anticipation.

In rhetoric: A name sometimes applied to the use of an adjective (or a noun) as objective predicate (see predicate), as if implying an anticipation of the result of the verb’s action.

A figure consisting in anticipation of an opponent’s objections and arguments in order to preclude his use of them, answer them in advance, or prepare the reader to receive them unfavorably. This figure is most frequently used in the exordium. Also called procatalepsis.

An error in chronology, consisting in dating an event before the actual time of its occurrence; an anachronism.