Which of the following is a complex sentence?
a. i would like to visit the kinshasa, but i understand the city is unsafe for foreigners.
b. check out the editorial page in today's paper and you'll notice the piece by george will.
c. as jake was reading the email from june yet again, the flight attendant coughed gently to get his attention.
d. i simply cannot make heads or tails of rap lyrics, but i suppose i'm just too old to understand them.

the correct answers are:

c. “never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue.”

d. “‘it has never been heard,’ was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later.”

e. “this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke.”

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.