exposition
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For St. Louis, the exposition functioned as an exercise in city-building and the carving out of civic spaces, including architect Cass Gilbert’s Palace of Fine Arts, which was renamed the St. Louis Art Museum.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026
There is no opening credits sequence, not even a single bit of pre-title exposition to get viewers acclimated to the characters or the setting.
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026
Bursting into Kenna’s quarters seemingly at will, she raids her near-empty fridge while bluntly shouldering much of the exposition.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026
Ibsen, it turns out, doesn’t need his layers of exposition.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2026
And indeed soon afterward the fair’s Grounds and Buildings Committee authorized him to invite the men to join 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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