This tale is written as a mock-heroic. This is because the tale adopts the stylistic conventions of grand epics, but makes fun of them. The author uses words and a style that usually belongs to great, fantastic stories, but in fact tells a very simple story in a modest setting. The speaker describes a rooster named Chanticleer as an animal with qualities that normally belong to noble knights. Moreover, the hen Lady Pertelote is described in the way a pure and gracious maiden would normally have been described in a Medieval romance.
