Expository texts contain a main idea with supporting details and evidence. They should have a conclusion as well. Excerpt 1 informs the audience about Mount St. Helen. Excerpt 2 explains how anxiety manifests and ways to reduce it. Excerpts 4 and 5 are stories. They do not make a claim and then back it up with supporting evidence. Instead, they describe characters, a setting, and events. Excerpt 3 is written in second person point of view and explains about visiting another country.
The three excerpts that would best be characterized as expository texts are :
* Excerpt 1
* Excerpt 2
* Excerpt 3
Explanation:
The first three options are the ones that are presenting expository texts since this kind of text is meant to be educational and it has to be written with a purpose, it also gives fundamental information about the topic to the reader and it is always based on facts that can be proved by the introduction of evidence.
