Exposition and Work

Exposition

Exposition noun - A public showing of objects of interest.

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Work and exposition are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Work" instead a noun "Exposition".

Work noun - A literary, musical, or artistic production.

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Exposition and work are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Exposition" instead a noun "Work".

Nearby Words: works, working, worked, workable, worker

good	good exposition	good work
particular	particular exposition	particular work
usual	usual exposition	usual work
short	short exposition	short work
Other adjectives: heavy, actual, real, serious, little, quick, important, necessary, new, later, further, extra, last, scientific, earlier, previous.

What would usually fall to exposition in an original work is often left undone in fanfiction, as the work of explaining the world has already been performed by the preexisting fiction.

Source: Most Fanfic Writers Are Fans
A popular definition of how a plot as a whole should progress within the "running time" of a work is the succession of five acts: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution.

Source: Plot
Exposition be able to explain what the bad guys want here or how they work?

Source: Exposition Intuition

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