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What (who) is expository - definition

BACKGROUND INFORMATION WITHIN A NARRATIVE; ONE OF FOUR RHETORICAL MODES
Plot exposition; Incluing; Plot dump; Infodump; Expository; Exposition (plot device); Exposition (fiction); Expositional Dialogue; Information dump; Exposition (literary technique); Plot dumping; Exposition dump; Info dump; Info-dump; Indirect exposition; Narrative exposition

Expository         
·adj Pertaining to, or containing, exposition; serving to explain; explanatory; illustrative; exegetical.
expository         
a.
Explanatory, illustrative, exegetical, elucidative.
Exposition (narrative)         
Narrative exposition is the insertion of background information within a story or narrative. This information can be about the setting, characters' backstories, prior plot events, historical context, etc.

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Exposition (narrative)

Narrative exposition is the insertion of background information within a story or narrative. This information can be about the setting, characters' backstories, prior plot events, historical context, etc. In literature, exposition appears in the form of expository writing embedded within the narrative. Exposition is one of four rhetorical modes (also known as modes of discourse), along with description, persuasion, and narration, as elucidated by Alexander Bain and John Genung.

Examples of use of expository
1. Mofleh Al–Qahtani of the NSHR in Riyadh told Arab News by phone that the society had not done anything and that it was waiting for the court’s expository statement on Tuesday.
2. There is only one extra on this budget–priced disc, but it‘s an intriguing one÷ a relatively talky opening sequence, apparently cut at the last minute (it is fully mixed and scored), that sets up the plot and characters in conventional expository terms.