Rhetorical Structures — The Biggest Stage on Earth
Grammar: Rhetorical structures — tricolon, anaphora, antithesis, periodic sentences
Free ESL grammar exercise on rhetorical structures themed around the biggest stage on earth. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.
What's on this worksheet
A Level 6 (proficiency) ESL grammar exercise on business, practising rhetorical structures — tricolon, anaphora, antithesis, periodic sentences. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
The World Cup does not merely reward the largest sponsors — it rewards the most alert, the most creative, the most willing to move when the window opens. The window, as every marketer eventually learns, is always shorter than you expected. Not because the event ends.
Grammar: Rhetorical Structures
- Tricolon
- Three parallel units in sequence. We came, we saw, we conquered. The third unit carries the most weight.
- Anaphora
- Repeating a word or phrase at the start of successive clauses. Not because it was easy. Not because it was cheap.
Sample items
- Rewrite as a tricolon: The pitch was confident, it was well-researched, and it was delivered with conviction.
- Rewrite using anaphora: She had not come to negotiate. She did not come to compromise. She had come to win.
- Rewrite as antithesis: Spotify launched with no marketing budget but captured thirty million listeners in its first year.
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