cataphora

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Examples
- He's going to get into a fight, John is. - If you want to, you can do the dishes. - He is the man of the hour. He needs no introduction. He is our next candidate for President. I give you Richard Nixon.

From Ancient Greek καταφορά (kataphorá, “a downward motion”), from κατά (katá, “downwards”) + φέρω (phérō, “I carry”).

cataphora (countable and uncountable, plural cataphoras)

(linguistics, rhetoric) The use of a pronoun, or other linguistic unit, before the noun phrase to which it refers, sometimes used for rhetorical effect.

referring to a noun that appears later