Rhetorical structures

Article excerpt · target grammar marked

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 Reference · 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.

Antithesis

Two contrasting ideas in balance. It is not an ending — it is a delivery. — sharpens the central claim.

Periodic sentence

Key meaning withheld until the final clause. A tree contains, locked in its grain, the memory of an ocean it never touched.

01Exercise 1 — Form · Write the Correct Form

Rhetorical structures

1.Rewrite using a tricolon: 'The port receives goods and processes them and sends them onward.'

2.Rewrite using anaphora: 'Distance shapes the price. Distance shapes the risk. Distance shapes the opportunity.'

3.Rewrite as antithesis: 'A tariff is a cost but it can also be a tool.'

4.Rewrite as a periodic sentence: 'Global trade quietly feeds billions of people every single day.'

5.Rewrite using a tricolon: 'The company grew and expanded and eventually dominated the market.'

6.Rewrite using antithesis: 'Specialisation is powerful but without distribution it fails.'

02Exercise 2 — Transform

rewrite with the new structure

1.The salmon is just a fish.

2.The journey changes things.

3.Distance makes trade hard.

03Exercise 3 — About You

in your notebook

Personalise: complete five sentences about yourself using the target grammar.

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