The Merchant's Tale - techniques used to interest a listening audience
Last updated: 15/11/2023
Contributor: Helen Millman Jones
A useful revision sheet listing the techniques Chaucer uses to capture his audience's interest. The resource includes examples from the text, and key techniques including:
- direct address
- rhetorical devices
- dialogue
- verification and poetic techniques
- religious references
Students are encouraged to find their own examples from the text for each.
(Extracts from Chaucer's text are taken from the M. Hussey CUP edition of the text.)
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