Modes Used in the Pardoner's Tale <Tab/>The Pardoner's presentation to the congregation in Chaucer's Canterbury tales is written in both the expository mode as well as the satiric mode. Other modes can also be found in this story such as irony. It is a mode that is indirectly connected to the satiric and expository modes. <Tab/>To understand how the Pardoner's presentation is presented in expository …showed first 75 words of 469 total…

…showed last 75 words of 469 total…which he preaches against. <Tab/>The Pardoner's tale is told purposefully, in a serious manner. This indicates to the reader that the modes will also be serious ones. The nature of a sermon is that it teaches a moral, and so the expository mode is indicated. Finally, it is the character, (or lack of it), of the Pardoner and his motives that add the satiric and ironic elements to his presentation.