exposition
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“Sisters in Yellow” is marred in places by clunky exposition and overextended scenes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
At 95 minutes, the opera is about 15 minutes too long, laden with considerable exposition and repetition.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026
And in just three minutes of exposition, Hughes and Deutch nimbly convey that Molly Ringwald’s Andie Walsh is both your conventional artsy wallflower and a singularly special young woman.
From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026
Ibsen, it turns out, doesn’t need his layers of exposition.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026
Emeline took her cousins on a tour of Holmes’s building and told them of his effort to transform it into a hotel for exposition guests.
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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