Exposition: Events, Ideas, And Biography Flashcards
Second category of exposition?
An explanation of events
Found in newspapers, news magazines, encyclopedias, diaries, and journals
Event exposition requires?
Fates, times, and other items related to specific information about the event
Event exposition does not?
State or list achievements and happenings but provides information that tells about the event
Event articles are often?
Highly dramatized; leave realm of exposition and become more like fiction
To find pure exposition?
Look in encyclopedias and almanacs
Third category of exposition?
Explains idea
Idea exposition must be?
An idea about which you can write about objectively; objective truth
Idea composition can be found in?
Encyclopedias, science books, or political papers
Only ____ should be used in idea articles
Objective information
The three categories of exposition deals (facts, events, ideas) are not?
Separates by clear-cut, impassible boundaries; may rely on more than one category
Biography
Relies on exposition
Account or history of an individual’s life as told by another person
Biographies blends together?
The categories of expository writing
Biographies all contain a certain amount of?
Facts and dates
Biographer must include?
Background information of time and place and specific info about individual’s life and work
Biographer may need to use?
The “how-to” method
