Question

Read the following text:

The waves pounded the hull of the boat. Salt spray peppered the sails and drenched the faces of the crew. Cold crept up from the
deck and chilled their weary limbs.
This text is an example of which of the following?
Select one
a Backstory
b. Exposition
c. Dialogue
d Plot

Answer 1

Answer: B exposition

Explanation: To answer this, you can use process of emlimination. This excerpt doesn’t hint that a person is thinking back on this event, or telling it. It seems like they are living it. You know it can’t be dialogue because no one is talking back and forth. Unless this excerpt is a memory, it cannot be backstory. It could possibly be exposition, because exposition is a memory with a narrator. I don’t see it being plot because unless this is the crux of the story, the answer is out of contex and doesn’t apply.