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Expository vs Commentary - What's the difference?

expository | commentary |

As an adjective expository

is serving to explain, explicate, or elucidate; expositive; of or relating to exposition.

As a noun commentary is

a series of comments or annotations; especially, a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of some other work.

expository

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Serving to explain, explicate, or elucidate; expositive; of or relating to exposition.
    • Practicing expository writing will teach you to explain complex concepts clearly.

    commentary

    English

    (wikipedia commentary) (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (commentaries)
  • A series of comments or annotations; especially, a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of some other work.
    • This letter . . . was published by him with a severe commentary . -(Henry Hallam).
  • A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum; -- usually in the plural; as, Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War.
  • An oral description of an event, especially broadcast by television or radio, as it occurs.

    • Derived terms

    * audio commentary * commentary track * DVD commentary * political commentary * social commentary * supercommentary

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