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expository

Speech parts

1. expository - Adjective

2. expository - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Pertaining to, or containing, exposition; serving to explain; explanatory; illustrative; exegetical.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain. George Steiner

The best way to learn a topic is by teaching it. Similarly the best way to understand a new proof is by writing an expository article about it. Doron Zeilberger

What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation. Richard Russo

Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose. Carol Shields

I followed my inspiration to an ending I couldn't yet see, and incorporated techniques of allegory and exposition, expository essay. Vanna Bonta

I've been writing long enough to know that fiction, as a rhetorical mode, works very differently from expository writing. If an author has a specific critique about contemporary society in mind, fiction tends not to be the best means to deliver that critique. Ken Liu

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