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Hysteron proteron
What is it?
Examples
- A figure of speech in which the natural or rational order of its terms is reversed, as in bred and born instead of born and bred.
- He died and he rushed against the enemy.
- The logical fallacy of assuming as true and using as a premise a proposition that is yet to be proved.
Answer
Disorder of time. Placing first what the reader might expect to come last.
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