Question

Read the paragraph. Is the food industry trying to make us fat? Many believe the answer to that question is yes. Between the oversized portions and the excessive amounts of sugar, fat, and salt, it's hard to know what to order when we eat out. Examples of artery-clogging, calorie-laden menu items from some popular restaurant should illustrate why we have to keep loosening our belts. What type of exposition is illustrated in this paragraph? illustration/example classification comparison/contrast process analysis

Answer 1

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The type of exposition showed in this paragraph is the illustration/example writing.

Argument:

A writer can use different types of evidence to demonstrate the author's purpose of the text. This genre of writing is used to illustrate some details or examples of the topic within the text, this type of essay/text should include some persuasive and argumentative phrases, so that the reader can understand the message and think the same way as the author.

In this paragraph, the author includes some persuasive comments saying that the restaurants sometimes tend to show us in their menus the most calorie-laden meals that keep us gaining weight.

Answer 2

The type of exposition that is illustrated in this paragraph is illustration and example because in the first idea of the paragraph the picture of the topic is described by features and characteristics to give the reader that idea of large amount of unhealthy edible elements people eat per meal, and in the second idea of it there is an example that just looking at the menu, people may recognize the health problems eating these plates brings.