Rhetorical structures — When a Nine-Year-Old Sold Out in Fifteen Minutes
Grammar: Rhetorical structures and discourse management
Free ESL grammar exercise on rhetorical structures themed around when a nine-year-old sold out in fifteen minutes. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.
What's on this worksheet
A Level 6 (proficiency) ESL grammar exercise on business, practising rhetorical structures and discourse management. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
What distinguishes Paudie's enterprise from thousands of similar roadside ventures is partly the product — eggs from a working farm are a particular thing — and partly the storytelling.
Grammar
- Tricolon
- Three parallel units build rhythm and emphasis. She read, she thought, she decided. — each unit equal in weight.
- Anaphora
- Repeated openings amplify a point. It is not luck. It is not timing. It is preparation.
Sample items
- Rewrite as a tricolon: 'He checked the box and then fed the hens and after that he cleaned the yard.'
- Rewrite using anaphora: 'The box proved that honesty works, that simplicity works, and that personality works.'
- Rewrite as antithesis: 'Both the product and the story matter, but the story matters more.'
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