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- noun rhetoric A
rhetorical exercise in which thespeaker raises anobjection to his ownargument and then immediatelyanswers it, in an attempt tostrengthen the argument by dealing with possiblecounter -arguments. - noun rhetoric
Rebuttal of anticipated objections. - noun grammar Left
dislocation .
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This technique has a distinguished relative in classical rhetoric: the device of procatalepsis, in which the speaker brings up and immediately refutes the anticipated objections of his or her hearer.
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