The Merchant's Tale - techniques used to interest a listening audience

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.)