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Noun Concept
Categories: Fiction-writing mode, Articles with short description, Narrative techniques
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exposition  Exposition dump  Expositional Dialogue  expository  expository text
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An account that sets forth the meaning or intent of a writing or discourse WordNet 3.0
English:
plot device
literary technique
fiction
narrative
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An account that sets forth the meaning or intent of a writing or discourse WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Narrative exposition, now often simply exposition, is the insertion of background information within a story or narrative. Wikipedia
Background information within a narrative; one of four rhetorical modes Wikidata
An opening section in fiction, in which background information about the characters, events or setting is conveyed. Wiktionary
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We would have understood the play better if there had been some initial exposition of the background WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
IS A
explanation
PART OF
literary work
DERIVATION
elaborate
FIELD OF WORK
folklore studies
literary science
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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exposition
Wikipedia
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exposition (narrative)
Wikidata
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exposition
Wiktionary
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exposition
Wikipedia Redirections
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Exposition (fiction), Exposition dump, Expositional Dialogue, expository, incluing, indirect exposition, info-dump, Info dump, infodump, Information dump, narrative exposition, plot dump, Plot dumping, Plot exposition
Wikidata Alias
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expository text, narrative exposition

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