exposition
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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
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
The dialogue avoids exposition, the silences say much.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025
Around 2,000 people watched the action inside Bern's Festhalle exposition hall.
From Barron's • Nov. 13, 2025
He resolved that to preserve his credibility as supervising architect, a role in which he would be compelled to oversee the work of other exposition architects, he would not himself design any of the buildings.
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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