can you plz help me

[Sub-Zero]

Exposition: Where an author interrupts a story in order to explain something, usually to provide important background information.


does the author actually have to tell you, or does a flashback that a character has count too?

 

[nycgirl]

Flashbacks count too.

 

[Sub-Zero]

Flashbacks count too.

k2u once i recharge

 

[seizer]

k2u once i recharge

nycgirl is wery wery smart

 

[1_more_rep]

Exposition: Where an author interrupts a story in order to explain something, usually to provide important background information.


does the author actually have to tell you, or does a flashback that a character has count too?

was in AP english and passed the AP test... ...so lemme take a shot at this...the other himself does not have to tell you...and yes 75% of the time they use characters to flashback what the other wants to reveal to the reader...most of the time when an author prresents info to the reader like a flashback its italicized...if it is in your book...FOR SURE thats exposition

make sure the character is in a soliloquy (sp) though! you may THINK it is exposition when a character may just be telling another character a story and not in fact flashing back...i hope i made sense

 

[Sub-Zero]

was in AP english and passed the AP test... ...so lemme take a shot at this...

no!

 

[1_more_rep]

no!

yup i DID pass if you like it or not and i'm one of the FEW in the Ap class that wasn't super nerdy and stayed in class after to TALK to the teacher (WTF does that?) and study for the test n make group sessions...i just said if im smart ill pass n i used my head n passed luckily...YAY

 

[Sub-Zero]

yup i DID pass if you like it or not and i'm one of the FEW in the Ap class that wasn't super nerdy and stayed in class after to TALK to the teacher (WTF does that?) and study for the test n make group sessions...i just said if im smart ill pass n i used my head n passed luckily...YAY

sweet, passing at my school is like a C though

 

[digger]

Flashbacks, dialog, the "omniscient narrator" -- whatever does the job.

That's why the Michael York guy in the Austin Powers movies is called Basil Exposition. When you have a character telling another character something he already ought to know, that's a good example of bad exposition.

"As you know, 007 --"
"If I already know it, Q, why are you telling me?"
"Because the bloody audience DOESN'T know!"
"Oh, right. Carry on."

 

[Sub-Zero]

Flashbacks, dialog, the "omniscient narrator" -- whatever does the job.

That's why the Michael York guy in the Austin Powers movies is called Basil Exposition. When you have a character telling another character something he already ought to know, that's a good example of bad exposition.

"As you know, 007 --"
"If I already know it, Q, why are you telling me?"
"Because the bloody audience DOESN'T know!"
"Oh, right. Carry on."

u should be a teacher.

thanks for all the help in this thread guys