analepsis
Meaning of analepsis
- a literary device in narrative, in which a past event is narrated at a point later than its chronological place in a story.
writers make strategic use of both analepsis and prolepsis in telling a story
- ascension into heaven.
the analepsis terminated the earthly ministry
mid 17th century (in the sense ‘rhetorical device involving repetition of a word or phrase’): via late Latin from Greek analēpsis, from ana ‘up’ + lambanein ‘take’.
Information about analepsis
Hyphenation of analepsis
analep-sis
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- analepsis is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Words that rhyme with analepsis
psis, Synapsis, apoapsis, apsis, asynapsis, desynapsis, metasynapsis, mitapsis, parapsis, parasynapsis, periapsis, presynapsis, synapsis, telosynapsis, zoothapsis, aeroscepsis, amnioclepsis, antilepsis, antisepsis, arteriostrepsis, arteriotrepsis, asepsis, catalepsis, colisepsis, encephalosepsis, endosepsis, enterosepsis, epanalepsis, exosepsis, hematosepsis, menosepsis, metalepsis, metapepsis, monoblepsis, monolepsis, omphaloskepsis, parablepsis, paralepsis, pepsis, phlebostrepsis, procatalepsis, prolepsis, proteopepsis, pseudoblepsis, sarcosepsis, scepsis, sepsis, skepsis, stomatosepsis, strepsis