Types of Exemplification

What is It Examples serve various purposes. They may illustrate, explain, tell a story, describe,
or do all of these at the same time. The difference among the types of examples used
in exemplification are shown in the following table.

Examples that Examples that Examples that Examples

TOPIC 4: EXEMPLIFICATION (Your Words Exemplify Your Illustrate Explain Tell a Story that Describe
Words) Definition These refer to These refer to These refer to These refer to
examples that examples that examples that examples that
come in the further explain a narrate a story describe a
Introduction form of concept being to prove or concept vividly
illustrations like defined or provide a point. to help the
In the Philippines, fiestas are very much anticipated by all walks of life. Participants
diagrams, described. readers
decorate the entire village or the barangay with different colored banderitas, have the
pictures, and visualize and
local marching band lead the opening ceremony, organize activities, such as games
ideas. understand it
and contests, and most noticeably of all, prepare food lavishly.
as clearly as
Suppose there is a fiesta at your place. Which kinds of food do you and your family possible.
prepare for everyday to enjoy? Maybe you would have a one whole serving of suckling Example Media can serve Some of the Media can also Media is a
pig or lechon. Maybe you could say there would also be plain steamed rice or rice
as a platform of various forms of be used to channel for
with various toppings, a multitude of viands or ulam, pansit, sticky rice cakes or communication. abuse in the use of spread hate on sending and
kakanin, soft drinks, beer, and other kinds of dishes typical in a Filipino celebration. It can connect media are someone just receiving
Whatever your answers be, you may find yourself enumerating these food items to people from cyberbullying, like what information.
show just how much enthusiasm and effort Filipinos exert in preparing for the fiesta.
different parts of cybersex, scams, happened to me An example of
the world to one and many other before. There which is the
another. It does cybercrimes that was this one widely used
Discussion the same for ruin relationships time, I was just social media
Listing, enumerating, and giving examples are very useful techniques in overseas between people scrolling on my site called
elaborating topic or a subject. In the example of the fiesta above, you were guided workers and and damage one’s newsfeed as I Facebook. It is
into using these techniques to explain how lavish Filipino fiestas are in terms of food. their loved ones. dignity and regularly do. I a social media
Elaboration or explanation by giving examples is called exemplification. reputation. was caught by platform that
surprise when I has an icon in
This pattern of development in writing involves the use of several examples to further was tagged by a the form of a
explain a concept and to support its claims and ideas. It uses terms such as in friend, and white colored
addition, for example, in example, also, and furthermore to introduce each example there I saw my letter “f” and
that proves the concept being discussed. The main purpose of exemplification is to initials and has a blue
make ideas clearer by providing more details that support them through various description that background. It
examples. Exemplification is commonly used together with the other patterns of clearly refers to has
development as it sets further points to clarify certain ideas or topics. me. It was a communication
Exemplification can be made by providing factual information, narrating events, hate post in a features that
showing statistical data, using quotes from researches and other texts, stating created secret allow people to
anecdotes, and all others that can support the definition or description of certain file for our send and
ideas or topics. department. I receive photos,
was saddened videos, voice
by what clips, and

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 happened and messages to
felt bad that one another at
there are people the same time. What I Have Learned
who use media Through this
to spread hate platform,
instead people can 1. __________________ can also be considered as one way to define a concept.
spreading also create a 2. Looking at fiesta celebrations in the Philippines can help one understand how
positivity and profile of ______________ go all out and restrain themselves in terms of food.
relevant themselves 3. Exemplification as a mode of paragraph development is very useful in
information which can be discussing _____________ topics by way of enumerating or listing subtopics
viewed and that are considered familiar to the target readers.
visited by their
friends. People
can also add
friends and
confirm friend
requests
What I Can Do
through
Facebook.

Activity 1.4.2 Sample! Sample! Sample!

Due to the quarantine, many people ventured into planting, specifically backyard
and ornamental gardening. They planted several species of vegetables as well as
flowering plants.
What’s More
For your activity, you have to step out of your house first. Then, look around you.
Afterwards, try to list down examples of trees in your yard. Also, look for the
vegetables that you grow in your garden and list those down in your notes. This time,
you take a look at your ornamental plants. Have a list of the different flowering
Activity 1.4.1 Culture and Choices plants, cacti, and succulents that abound your garden.

Fill in the table with the different plants that you observed.
As opposed to the abundance of food and drinks associated with fiestas, let us now
tackle Filipino events that do not entail a lavish preparation of food. What are some
events Filipino culture in which we are enjoined not to eat meat? Why are we enjoined Trees Vegetables Ornamental plants
to do so? If we observe this fasting, what are the dishes you eat as an alternative? If (flowering, cacti,
you do not observe the no-meat rule, which dishes can you suggest be eaten? succulents)
Enumerate your answers and write them on the table below.

Event Reasons for No-Meat Diet Suggested Alternative

Dishes

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