exposition
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Done right, narrative exposition will tell an audience everything that they need to know about a character, while leaving just enough room for curiosity to take hold.
From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026
Around 2,000 people watched the action inside Bern's Festhalle exposition hall.
From Barron's • Nov. 13, 2025
His scores, with their inherent rigor and overt religiosity, seemingly simple structure and patient exposition, conjure a world both foundational and unbound.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025
Did I mention there’s also the faux documentary, many a horror movie’s favorite exposition vehicle?
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2025
He needed more power—not for his own ego but for the sake of the exposition.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Vocabulary lists containing exposition
The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 1
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Vocabulary to Describe Literary Devices
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Expository Writing, List 1
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