Rhetorical Structures

Article excerpt · target grammar marked

Zuckerberg's case rests on three values: liberty, open inquiry, and free enterprise. His agent promises to free your time, improve your health, and shape your future. The essay offers not automation, but invention; not restriction, but empowerment.

Grammar Reference · Rhetorical Structures

Tricolon

Three parallel items of rising weight. Liberty, open inquiry, and free enterprise shaped the modern world. Rhythm builds to the final term.

Anaphora

Repeated opening phrase across clauses. It will free time. It will improve health. It will shape futures. Creates cumulative force.

Antithesis

Sharp contrast in paired clauses. Not automation, but invention; not restriction, but empowerment. Each half mirrors the other.

Periodic sentence

Main clause withheld until the end. Whether this is empowerment or centralisation is precisely the question the essay declines to answer.

01Exercise 1 — Form · Write the Correct Form

Rhetorical Structures

1.She had no resources, no connections, and .

2. will change how we learn. ... will change how we work. ... will change who we are.

3.The technology promises freedom; in practice, it delivers .

4.Whether Meta can be trusted to distribute power fairly the question the manifesto never resolves.

5.He brought creativity, determination, and to every project he touched.

6. matters. ... endures. ... defines us.

02Exercise 2 — Transform

rewrite with the new structure

1.AI will change work. AI will change education. AI will change medicine.

2.The company promises empowerment. The company retains control.

3.He had no degree. He had no funding. He changed the industry.

4.Whether the manifesto is genuine idealism or sophisticated marketing is the question no one in the press conference asked.

03Exercise 3 — About You

in your notebook

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

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