I'm doing a fiction analysis of the book Things Not Seen. What would the exposition be? I know it's the 'essential information needed to understand the story' but I don't really understand what exactly that means?
Can anyone tell me what exposition is, in a nutshell? :/
2007-10-15 13:06:52 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Exposition is a literary technique by which information is conveyed about events that have occurred prior to the beginning of a novel, play, movie or other work of fiction. This information can be presented through dialogue, description, news reports, flashback, or even directly through narrative. Because exposition generally does not advance plot and may impede present-time action, it is usually best kept in short and succinct form, though in some genres, such as the mystery, exposition is central to the story structure itself.
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2007-10-15 14:06:24 · answer #1 · answered by arman 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
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I'm doing a fiction analysis of the book Things Not Seen. What would the exposition be? I know it's the 'essential information needed to understand the story' but I don't really understand what exactly that means?
Can anyone tell me what exposition is, in a nutshell? :/
2015-08-07 19:01:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm not going to compete with the other answer (very thorough), but I'll try to put it in simple terms.
The exposition is the part of the story where we learn basic information that helps to understand the "background" of the story. It;s usually everyday information that helps build the characters, setting, etc. and make it more real/believeable. Sometimes it provides information about events that happened before the story began, but are key to understanding the story and the people in it.
Maybe an example is best - exposition might be two characters talking about what happened at school today. From their conversation, we could learn things like what town they live in, where they go to school, whether they are good students, what subjects they take, what grade they are in, etc., without the author actually writing, "Kelly goes to Johnson High in Denver. She is a senior. She take calculus...." and so on.
2007-10-15 14:22:00 · answer #3 · answered by Sarah M 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I'm doing a report what is the exposition
2016-04-05 09:42:46 · answer #4 · answered by Elizabeth 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The exposition of a story is when the author introduces the reader to the world of the book. ( I.ex. Setting: the who,when, and what, the problem and of the story.
Plus i am 8 years old
2014-09-09 15:34:47 · answer #5 · answered by Natalie L. 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋