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What is the difference between expository and narrative?

expository | narrative |

As adjectives the difference between expository and narrative

is that expository is serving to explain, explicate, or elucidate; expositive; of or relating to exposition while narrative is telling a story.

As a noun narrative is

the systematic recitation of an event or series of events.

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.

    narrative

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Telling a story.
  • Overly talkative; garrulous.
  • * (and other bibliographic details) (Alexander Pope)
  • But wise through time, and narrative with age.
  • Of or relating to narration.
  • the narrative thrust of a film

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The systematic recitation of an event or series of events.
  • That which is narrated.
  • A representation of an event or story.
  • * '>citation
  • Derived terms

    * antenarrative * antinarrative * metanarrative