expository

Examples

• All

• Students have 35 minutes to silently read short narrative and expository passages and answer multiple-choice questions.

  Academic text (2010)

• To our knowledge, we completed the first analyses of topic effects for an expository task.

  Academic text (2014)

• Factor 2 had a wide variety of measures that together appeared to document expository content.

  Academic text (2014)

• The current study provides a critical first step toward fully validated implementation of expository analysis.

  Academic text (2014)

• Unlocking text features for determining importance in expository text: A strategy for struggling readers.

  Academic text (2014)

• The factor analysis revealed that measures from expository LSA successfully captured multiple dimensions of oral language.

  Academic text (2014)

• Each book has 5 narrative text passages, 5 expository text passages, and 3 poetry lessons.

  Academic text (2002)

• The assessment consists of expository and narrative passages ranging in length from three to fifteen sentences.

  Academic text (2015)

• In the current study, the 12 expository measures were analyzed using a PCA with varimax rotation.

  Academic text (2014)

• Unlike narrative prose, which is based on time chronology, expository prose is organized logically within a structure.

  Academic text (1994)

Synonyms

E

explanatory

vsexpository

28 3.8

Helps make something clear or easy to understand

is more formal and focuses on detailed expounding rather than brief clarity

I

illustrative

vsexpository

20 4.6

Showing examples or pictures to make an idea clear

is about direct explanation rather than relying on examples or images

E

expositional

vsexpository

1 6.9

Used to explain information or ideas clearly, for example in a lesson

is about explaining content generally rather than focusing on presentation

E

expositive

vsexpository

8.1

To give clear information that explains something

is broader and gives clear explanation without formal presentation

E

explicatory

vsexpository

7.1

Helping someone understand something clearly

is broader and sets forth information without deep analysis

How Explanatory

didactic

• Literature

5 8.1

explanatory

28 3.8

expository

3 7.0

informative

94 3.5

descriptive

28 4.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology