Rhetorical structures — What the River Carries
Grammar: Rhetorical structures: tricolon, anaphora, antithesis
Free ESL grammar exercise on rhetorical structures themed around what the river carries. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.
What's on this worksheet
A Level 6 (proficiency) ESL grammar exercise on science, practising rhetorical structures: tricolon, anaphora, antithesis. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
A single salmon, in other words, is not merely a fish: it is a consignment note, a vessel, a declaration of origin. What the ocean produces, the forest eventually receives. What is consumed at one end replenishes something at the other.
Grammar: Rhetorical Structures
- Tricolon
- Three parallel units building to a climax. It carries nutrients, energy, and memory. — each unit adds weight.
- Anaphora
- Repeated word at the start of consecutive clauses. What travels transforms. What arrives endures. — drives momentum.
Sample items
- Rewrite using a tricolon: 'The port receives goods and processes them and sends them onward.'
- Rewrite using anaphora: 'Distance shapes the price. Distance shapes the risk. Distance shapes the opportunity.'
- Rewrite as antithesis: 'A tariff is a cost but it can also be a tool.'
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