What is an exposition?

Sourses:
Handout
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposition_(literary_technique)


Exposition

Unfortunately, I did not even know this word at all, so I read through the handout and searched in wikipedia.


Sequence: Writing lists, events or steps in chronological order.
Descriptive essays: Use the senses of sight smell, touch, hearing and taste to provide the reader with a mental image or feeling about the subject.
Classification: Writing uses an organisatinal strategy to arrange groups of objects or ideas according to a common theme.
Comparison: Writing shows the similarities and differences between two or more subjects.
Cause and effect: Writing, also known as analysis, identifies the reasons for an event or situation.


We can see obviously that there are 5 different types of exposition. The handout we received indicates that an exposition is a rhetorical discourse that provides information about or an explanation to difficult material and the purpose is either to inform, explain, argue, analyse or define.

That is to say an exposition can indicate something difficult to the readers in a way easier to understand. 'Something' can be a object, a method, a procedure or even a specific view of the writer. In order to plant his or her view about something into readers' brain, writers are tend to argue a point or a dispute. If it is a object, functions or charactoristics will be elaborated.

That is so call an exposition.