Anticipation is when a character prepares to express an action, whether its preparing to run, or to catch a ball. Anticipation is vey important especially in helping the characters look realistic rather then jumping into an action instantaneously. Every animation should be applying this rule to all their characters, particularly if the animation is strifing for realism. Anticipation is also very useful to direct the audiences attention, as the picture below suggests, as Wile E Coyote prepares to run the audience would know he is about to run to the left because of the fact he is facing left. However, this can also help to create a comical effect, for example if the audiences expect a common action to occur from a character due to their anticipation, something entirely different happens.
An example can be Wile E Coyote, from looney tunes, where he would go into a pose getting ready to sprint:
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