Okay kiddo, so you know how when we tell a story, we usually tell things in the order that they happen? Like first we woke up in the morning, then we had breakfast, and then we went to school. This makes sense, right?
Well, sometimes people like to change things up a bit in stories, and they might talk about something that happens later before they talk about something that happened earlier. This is called hysteron proteron.
It's like if we were telling a story about a superhero, and we said that he saved the day by stopping the villain from destroying the city, and then we said that he put on his cape and flew to the scene. But really, he would have had to put on his cape and fly to the scene before he could save the day, right?
So when someone uses hysteron proteron, they're kind of messing with the order of things to make the story more interesting or to emphasize something important. It's like they're saying "Hey, forget about the order things usually happen in, this is more exciting!"
Overall, it's just a fancy way of telling a story and it can be fun to play with different ways of telling stories. But it's important to remember that in real life, things usually happen in a certain order and we should try to stick to that order when we're telling true stories.