Infer: When reading any standard edited text how can you spot proper nouns very quickly? What immediate information would you as a reader get by quickly scanning proper nouns?

onto a large boat, and mark the water level that the boat sinks to. then, take the elephant out and put a bunch of marked weights onto the boat until it reaches the same water level. add up the masses of the weights to get the weight of the elephant.

it is the background information on the characters and setting explained at the beginning of the story. the exposition will often have information about events that happened before the story began. the exposition is often the very first part of the plot.

- the mistakes that have been done in the past will repeat themselves

- you will trust all the wrong people