"She had been built to be and had been described as a gigantic lifeboat. Her designers' dreams of a triplescrew giant, a luxurio
us, floating hotel, which could speed to New York at twenty-three knots had been carefully translated from blueprints and mold loft lines at the Belfast yards into a living reality." This excerpt is an example of which plot component?
Exposition is the component of the plot where the presentation and the introduction of the elements of the story take place in the presented narrative, that is, in this part are presented the characters, the scenery, the important objects for the story, among other things.
This component of the plot usually has many adjectives, which show how a certain element of the story is, behaves, presents itself, or even explains the existence and creation of this element. An example of this is seen in the excerpt above when the author is describing and presenting a lifeboat that has an importance for the established narrative.
