talky, didactic, overlong, digressive, stagy, discursive, wordy, stilted, extemporaneous, conversational, longwinded, melodramatic, ponderous, pedantic, engrossing, turgid, overfamiliar, cadenced, formulaic, allusive, uninteresting, textual, stagey, rote, shavian, banal, overdetermined, novelistic, pulpier, perfunctory, sententious, prefatory, aphoristic, verbose, performable, hackneyed, portentous, overwrought, sermonic, naturalistic, descriptive, lit crit, trite, reductive, declamatory, essayistic, droll, midrashic, authorial, exegetical, leaden, dialogic, affectless, abstruse, poetic, repetitious, explanatory, homiletic, tricksy, idiomatic, uninflected, teacherly, contrapuntal, disjunctive, winded, sophoclean, phrasal, autobiographic, suspenseful, prolix, allegorical, improvisatory, revelatory, witty, polysyllabic, tendentious, preachy, imagistic, denotative, comprehendible, pretentious, unaffecting, dramaturgical, shakespearean sonnet, slangy, onomatopoetic, intelligible, compendious, unentertaining, contentless, incantatory, prepositional, nonliterary, quippy, hortatory, ludic, riveting, obtuse, mawkish, lugubrious, thematic, cliched, empirical, methodological, literary, particulars, chronological, doctrinal, humanitarian, notice, signposts, supplementary, articles, con, consequence, consideration, controversy, convenience, destitute, disagreement, distinguishing, expositional, argumentative, polemical, informative, homiletical, introductory, exhortatory, narrative, epistolary, instructive

expositive