QUAESTIO-ANTICIPATIO-SELF-ANSWERED  

預先自問法 Anticipation and answering of possible objections.

Often referred to by its Greek name proleepsis.

Compare QUAESTIO-SELF-ANSWERED which involves not objections but requests for clarification.

Hypernym
  • QUAESTIOADDRESS in the form of an open question.The posing of open questions without providing or expecting an answer. Compare APORIA, DUBITATIO, HAESITATIO.
    • ADDRESSSPEECH ACT of explicitly addressing an audience.
      • SPEECH ACTRHETORICAL TROPE in the form of a deliberate rhetorico-semantic act performed. [This definition is still a tentative stop-gap, and this category is far larger than I would like. It needs to be intelligently subdivided. CH]
        • RHETORICAL TROPE體裁詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of expressions.
REF: Lausberg 854, 855, discussed under prolepsis in Miriam 116.

Greek/Latin: Extremely lively and elaborate use of this form in many kinds of prose and poetry: anticipated objections can be quite personal, extensive and very convincing indeed. Rutilius 2.4: proleepsis: hoc est, cum id, quod in adversarii causa1 aut in iudicis opinione esse aut fore arbitramur contrarium nobis, praeoccupamus dicere et cum ratione dissolvere.

Ancient Chinese: The form is current in poetry and prose. A standard term to introduce anticipated objections is 或曰 . The scope of anticipated objections tends to be more limited in ancient China. Objections introduced are rarely if ever personal or vindictive, they are never insulting and impolite. Wa2ng Cho4ng's Lu4nhe2ng 論衡 provides fairly extensive anticipated objections.

LY: Notoriously absent.

    Rhetorical device locations: 3