What are the differences between illustration, explanation, and expository passages?

Question

This is a Logic question. I am having a hard time telling the differences between these non-arguments.
Please HELP!

Answer 1

An Illustration is a visualization such as a drawing, painting, photograph or other work of art that stresses subject more than form. The aim of an illustration is to elucidate or decorate a story, poem or piece of textual information (such as a newspaper article), traditionally by providing a visual representation of something described in the text.

Illustrations can be used to display a wide range of subject matter and serve a variety of functions like:

giving faces to characters in a story;
displaying a number of examples of an item described in an academic textbook (e.g. A Typology);
visualising step-wise sets of instructions in a technical manual.
communicating subtle thematic tone in a narrative.
linking brands to the ideas of human expression, invididuality and creativity.
envoking the viewer to feel emotion in such a way as to expand on the linguistic aspects of the narrative.

An explanation is a statement which points to causes, context, and consequences of some object, process, state of affairs, etc., together with rules or laws that link these to the object. Some of these elements of the explanation may be implicit.

Explanations can only be given by those with understanding of the object which is explained.

In scientific research, explanation is one of three purposes of research (other two being exploration and description). Explanation is the discovery and reporting of relationships among different aspects of studied phenomenon.

Some different types of explanations:

Deductive-nomological
Functional
Historical
Psychological
Reductive
Teleological
Methodological

Expository writing is a mode of writing in which the purpose of the author is to inform, explain, describe, or define his or her subject to the reader. Expository text is meant to ‘expose’ information and is the most frequently used type of writing by students in colleges and universities. A well-written exposition remains focused on its topic and provides facts in order to inform its reader. It should be unbiased, accurate, and use a scholarly third person tone. The text needs to encompass all aspects of the subject. Examples of expository writing can be found in magazine and newspaper articles, non-fiction books, travel brochures, business reports, memorandums, professional journal and encyclopedia articles and many other types of informative writing. One of the most familiar and basic forms of expository writing is the five-paragraph essay, which features an introduction with a clear thesis statement, three main body paragraphs and a conclusion.

Answer 2

There are several passages that differ in small ways that one finds in different sources. One has to assume that the writer of each text was looking at some other source from which they were copying, and they tweaked what they were writing, based on their own bias or political view. Incidentally, the books of the Apocrypha most definitely ARE books in the Bible. They just are not considered to be as important as other books, and often some folks omit them, but they are certainly just as much a part of the Bible as Genesis or Exodus. They are part of the King James Translation, even though you often don't find them in the (modernized) King James versions you get in book stores. One wonders why the writer would copy something and make some obvious change in the text. I would assume that in those days, the writers probably assumed that there was no probability whatever of anyone ever seeing the two texts side by side, and then actually noticing that (1) a text from one is actually in the other, and (2) it has been altered. Bear in mind that they did not have easy access to the texts, not everyone could read, and the texts did not have chapter and verse markings until a very long time after the time when they were written, so it would be virtually impossible to say where a text could be found unless the person being informed was intimately familiar with the text. As to the reason the numbers were different, again the numbers often don't figure correctly. The people entering Egypt don't add up exactly to the number cited, for instance, unless one does some real finagling.

Answer 3

Expository Passage

Answer 4

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What are the differences between illustration, explanation, and expository passages?
This is a Logic question. I am having a hard time telling the differences between these non-arguments.
Please HELP!

Answer 5

An illustration gives an example... It tells a story, gives an antidote, or describes an event which is supposed to help the reader understand a main point.

An explanation tells how and why and who and what and when.

An exposition breaks down an idea into its component parts and explains each one before putting them all back together.

Answer 6

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