Exposition vs Convention - What's the difference?
exposition | convention |
The action of exposing something to something, such as skin to the sunlight.
The act of declaring]] or [[describe, describing something through either speech or writing.
(obsolete) The act of expulsion, or being expelled, from a place.
(writing) An essay or speech in which any topic is discussed in detail.
(writing) An opening section in fiction, including novel, play, and movie, by which background information about the characters, events, or setting is conveyed.
(music) The opening section of a fugue; the opening section of a movement in sonata form
The action of putting something out to public view; for example in a display or show.
A meeting or gathering.
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, date=May 30
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, title=How Christian fundamentalists plan to teach genocide to schoolchildren
, work=the Guardian
A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates
The convening of a formal meeting
A formal agreement, contract or pact
(international law) A treaty or supplement to such.
A generally accepted principle, method or behaviour.
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As nouns the difference between exposition and convention
is that exposition is exposition (action of putting something out to public view) while convention is a meeting or gathering.exposition
English
(wikipedia exposition)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* expositional * expositionarySee also
* explanation * exegesis ----convention
English
(wikipedia convention)Noun
(en noun)- The convention was held in Geneva.
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- ''The EU installed an inter-institutional Convention to draft a European constitution
- ''The Vienna convention at the Vienna Congress (1814-15) standardized most of diplomatic conduct for generations
- In order to account for this, we might propose to make the Prepositional Phrase an optional constituent of the Verb Phrase: this we could do by re-
placing rule (28) (ii) by rule (40) below:
(40) VP → V AP (PP)
(Note that a constituent in parentheses is, by convention , taken to be
optional.)
- ''Table seatings are generally determined by tacit convention , not binding formal protocol
- The convention of driving on the right is reinforced by law.