In Dante's Inferno (part of The divine Comedy), the author is narrating his spiritual experience when he gets lost, away from the right path, in a dark forest. Being a Christian, he wants to reach for the sun's light, symbol of the good, but he is hindered by these animals: a leopard, a lion, and a wolf that represent sin (<em>lack of self-restraint, violence, and deception</em>. )
The type of exposition that is illustrated in this paragraph is illustration and example because in the first idea of the paragraph the picture of the topic is described by features and characteristics to give the reader that idea of large amount of unhealthy edible elements people eat per meal, and in the second idea of it there is an example that just looking at the menu, people may recognize the health problems eating these plates brings.