expository modes

Exemplificstion/illustration

Uses one or more particular cases to illustrate or explain a general point or abstract concept.

Helps see generalization clearly

Exemplification/ illustration example essay

Battle of the ants

Cause/effect mode

Why smth happened.

Often a prediction of what could happen

Goals: teach or argue the effects, consequences, or implications of an event

Cause/effect example essay

On compassion (homeless ppl), battle of the ants

Comparison and contrast

Analyze two or more similar subjects , ppl, places, or ideas. Must reveal insight/info/new perspective!

Purpose: define or teach about one by relating to another

Evaluate= one is better than another

Could be used to show a unique relationship

Look for judgment / conclusion

Comparison and contrast example essay

Batting clean up, two ways to belong, catbird

Classification and division

Division: creating groups of subject matter, breaking a whole into its parts

Purpose: helps uncomplicate , shows complexity of the simple

Classification: sorts individual items into categories

Purpose: teach or simplify a complex topic

Classification essay example

I want a wife, types of women

Division essay example

types of women in romantic comedies

Definition expository mode

Teach/revise meaning of new word or concept.

Purpose: teach an unknowing audience, correct a biased or uninformed audience

Development: exemplification in analogy, establishing boundaries, negotiation

Definition essay example

Nature, redefining ladylike

Nature, Emerson expository mode

Definition

Redefining ladylike Taylore expository mode

Definition

We are the land, Alan expository mode

Exemplification/illustration

Types of women in romcoms expository mode

Classification and division

I want a wife expository mode

Classification and division

Batting cleanup expository mode

Comparison and contrast

Two ways to belong in America expository mode

Compare and contrast

The battle of the ants expository mode

Exemplification/illustration

On compassion expository mode

Cause-and-effect

The cat bird seat expository mode

Comparison and contrast

Authors, main point of nature

Nature is both physical and spiritual humans connect to universal truth through it

Authors, main point of redefining ladylike

Ladylike should mean confidence, strength, and authenticity, not silence or subservience

We are the land authors, main point

Land is sacred alive and relational and indigenous worldview

Types of women who aren’t real in romcoms authors main point

Hollywood stock female characters are unrealistic

Author’s main point of I want a wife

Critiques, traditional, gender roles by listing all duties expected of wives

Batten cleanup, authors, main point

Men and women have different priorities and values, especially regarding cleanliness and sports, he isn’t criticizing one gender, however

Two ways to belong in America authors main point

Immigrants can belong in multiple ways, assimilation versus maintaining home identity

The battle of the ants author’s main point

Small scale conflicts reflect visual struggle, and heroism

ON compassion authors, main point

Explores why people feel compassion and what it produces motivations are complex

The cat bird seat authors, main point

Envy and jealousy distort perception realities is rarely as perfect as it seems

How does nature use examples to prove its point?

Uses imagery like stars and landscapes

diction: elevated, spiritual like “transparent eyeball” “sublime” “harmony” “divine” . Transform nature from a material environment into a sacred almost mystical concept.

Imagery: vivid natural images stars, fields, sunlight, forests. This helps readers see natures beauty and feel its power.

Detials: observations of ordinary, natural experiences, like seeing the stars in walking in the woods shows that transcendence is not rare, and it is available to anyone who looks deeply into nature.

Syntax: Long flowing sentences mirror, the expansiveness of nature, and the unfolding of thought like I become a transparent eyeball this breaks the rhythm and highlights key insights.

How does redefining ladylike use examples to prove this point?

Use his ironic diction, like “sorry sickness” and “apology, apocalypse”

Details: every day, examples of women saying sorry, unnecessarily in school work or conversations

Syntax: uses repetition and parallel structures this creates rhythm and emphasis exemplifying how excessive the expectation has become

How does the author use examples to prove its point of we are the land

Uses examples from native traditions, imagery of living land, diction, like sacred and communal to show indigenous perspective

Imagery: uses rivers mountains in earths as living beings with agency

Syntax: uses flowing poetic sentences that echo the natural rhythms she describes

How does types of women use examples to prove its point?

Devices categories like the Kluttz in the career woman and uses humor, satire and pop culture, examples and imagery of quirks

Imager: vivid descriptions of these women tripping over nothing spilling, coffee or being too busy to love. Helps the reader connect these characters to films they have already seen..

Syntax: Short snappy sentences mixed with lists of character traits mirrored the punchy comedic style of stand-up satire .

How does I want wife use examples to prove its point

Uses repetition like I want wife and lists and syntax like overwhelming duties and irony to reveal inequality

Imagery: vivid,y explains women’s duties

Details: extreme details of what women should do

Syntax: long list like sentences with parallel structure mimic the piling up of endless tasks

How does batting clean up use examples to prove its point

diction: uses Word choice that’s casual and exaggerated like germ warfare or toxic mold colony for dirt. This makes it funny relatable.

Imager: Uses comedic images like women horrified by a single smudge of dirt and men glued to the TV during a game

Syntax: The short punch sentences deliver jokes quickly in long, run-on sentences, buildup, absurd, scenarios

How does two ways to belong use examples to prove its point

diction: neutral, precise language to describe herself as adapted vs strong emotional language for Mira like loyal and steadfast and alienated.

Effect: Highlights the contrast between a simulation and cultural retention, reinforcing the comparison

Details: provide specific examples like citizen, choices, professional experiences, interactions with American society in responses to US immigration policies

Syntax: Contrastive sentence structures they often just depose one sister’s actions with the others like when she said I became a citizen and mirror remained loyal to India this reinforces the central comparison

How does the battle of the ants use examples to prove its message?

Diction: martial and heroic terms like soldiers, hero’s, battlefield, valiant

Effect: elevates the ants conflict making it feel epic and meaningful mirroring human warfare

Imagery: vivid, descriptions of ants, fighting, biting, dragging one another and refusing to give up. This helps readers visualize the battle and see how even tiny creatures, display determination and struggle.

Detail: provide specific observations like the number of ants their movements and how they engage in combat

Syntax: Long flowing sentences mimic the intensity in chaos of the battle

How does on compassion use examples to prove its point

It uses real world examples like homelessness, reflective, tone, rhetorical questions, shows causes, and effects of compassion

How does the cat bird seat use examples to prove its message?

ddiction: uses words like catbird seat, envy, and jealousy and advantage to set up the theme of comparison and perceived superiority

Syntax: Combines short, punchy sentences with slightly longer reflective ones this evoke, a conversational, engaging tone that mirrors, the thought process of noticing envy

How does nature use definition to prove its purpose that nature isn’t just the outdoors, it’s a spiritual philosophical idea

diction: redefines nature not as physical trees, fields, or rivers, but a symbol of the divine, pathway to truth, and mirror to human nature

Uses examples like stars forests sunlight and solitude in the woods to make his def relatable

Syntax: long flowing sentences mirror expansiveness of nature

How does on compassion achieve its purpose through Exemplification mode

Presents vivid everyday moments to to make abtrasct idea of compassion visible and relatable. Specific descriptions like the man’s ragged clothing, the mother pulling her child close immerse reader in the scene so we feel discomfort.

Doesn’t judge the mother or homeless, let’s readers come to their conclusion.

Repetition