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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.