Dictionary Definition
exposition
Noun
1 a systematic interpretation or explanation
(usually written) of a specific topic [syn: expounding]
2 a collection of things (goods or works of art
etc.) for public display [syn: exhibition, expo]
3 an account that sets forth the meaning or
intent of a writing or discourse; "we would have understood the
play better if there had been some initial exposition of the
background"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /ɛkspǝʊ'zıʃǝn/
Etymology
Adopted from the lang=fr, itself an adaptation of the exponere.Noun
- The action of putting something out to public view; for example in a display or show.
- The act of declaring or describing something through either speech or writing.
- The act of expulsion, or being expelled, from a place.
- In the context of "writing": An essay or speech in which any topic is discussed in detail.
- In the context of "writing": A technique used in fiction, including novel, play, and movie, by which background information about the characters, events, or setting is conveyed.
Related terms
Translations
action of putting something out to public view
- Czech: výstava
essay or speech in which any topic is discussed
in detail
- Czech: výklad
- Esperanto: ekspozicio
- German: Ausstellung
- Portuguese: exposição
- Romanian: expoziţie
- Russian: выставка
- Slovak: expozícia
- Spanish: exposición
French
Pronunciation
- /ɛkspɔzisjɔ̃/|lang=fr
Noun
fr-noun fExtensive Definition
Exposition may refer to:
- Exposition (literary technique), a tece of dramatic structure in which undepicted plots elements are conveyed in dialogue, description, flashback or narrative
- Expository writing, a genre in which the purpose is to inform, explain, describe or define
- Exposition (music), a section of a musical composition (such as a fugue) in which musical material is introduced; also the formal name given to a section of a movement identified as an example of sonata form
- Fair or Expo (exhibition) (see list of world expositions)
- Route of administration, in toxicology
- Eucharistic adoration, in which the Blessed Sacrament is exposed and adored
- "Exposition", a song by Deep Purple from their 1969 album The Book of Taliesyn
exposition in Czech: Expozice
exposition in German: Exposition
exposition in French: Exposition
exposition in Italian: Esposizione
exposition in Slovak: Expozícia
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
allegorization, anacrusis, apocalypse, article, assignment, auto show,
baring, bass passage,
bazaar, boat show,
bourdon, bridge, burden, cadence, causerie, chalk talk, chorus, clarification, coda, commentary, commercial
complex, construction, cosmorama, cracking, critique, cyclorama, decipherment, declaration, decoding, delineation, demonstration, demythologization,
descant, description, development, diorama, disclosing, disclosure, discourse, discovering, discovery, discussion, display, disquisition, dissertation, division, editing, elucidation, emendation, emporium, enactment, enlightenment, enunciation, essay, etude, euhemerism, examination, excursus, exegesis, exemplification,
exercise, exhibit, exhibition, explanation, explication, expo, expose, exposure, expounding, fair, feature, figure, first approach, flea
fair, flea market, folderol, georama, harangue, harmonic close,
homework, homily, illumination, illustration, instruction, interlude, intermezzo, interpretation,
introductory phrase, introductory study, laying bare, lecture, lecture-demonstration,
lesson, light, light show, lucubration, manifestation, market, market overt, marketplace, mart, measure, memoir, monograph, moral, moral lesson, morality, moralization, morceau, movement, musical phrase,
musical sentence, myriorama, note, object lesson, open market,
opening, ornament, ostentation, outline, pageant, pageantry, pandect, panorama, paper, parade, paragraph, part, passage, patefaction, performance, period, phantasmagoria, phrase, piece, plaza, pomp, preachment, preliminary
study, presentation, presentment, production, projection, prolegomenon, psychedelic
show, rationale,
reason, recital, recitation, refrain, removing the veil,
representation,
research paper, resolution, response, retrospective, revealing, revealment, revelation, rialto, ritornello, screed, section, sermon, set task, shifting scene,
shopping center, shopping mall, shopping plaza, show, showing, showing up, showup, sight, simplification, sketch, skull session, solution, special article,
spectacle, stage show,
stanza, staple, statement, strain, street market, stripping, study, survey, tableau, tableau vivant,
tailpiece, talk, task, teaching, term paper, theme, thesis, tract, tractate, trade fair, treatise, treatment, tutti, tutti passage, uncloaking, uncovering, unfolding, unfoldment, unlocking, unmasking, unveiling, unwrapping, variation, varnishing day,
vernissage, verse