Exposition Writing1v What are the distinctions among narration, description and exposition? Purpose: narration to tell a story, to tell merely what happened (what/when/who). description to describe an object, to tell us how something looks, to re-create the thing in words. exposition to explain an idea, a thing, a person or a combination of these, to answer the questions how and why.2Organization: narration in time. description in space. exposition by logic. 3Whataretheylike: narration a stage p
