In Henry V, the Chorus informs us before each act what happens and where the action takes place, it warns us if the show skips certain periods of time. However, one of its main objectives is to compensate for what the staging is unable to achieve, to ask the audience to use their imagination and try to see what cannot be shown on stage. If we read this speech, we can observe that everything that The Chorus tells us can actually be summarized in a few sentences (The English fleet sets sail from Southampton and the siege of Harfleur by the English army begins. The ambassador returns with a the offer of the king of France: the hand of his daughter Katharine, with some ducats of little importance. The offer is rejected, and the siege continues...). However, the importance of the discourse lies in something different: the approach and literary techniques (language, style, tone...) that Chorus uses to command our attention, suspend our disbelief and stimulate us to use our imagination . The Chorus does this very cleverly in the use of verbs as in "Suppose" (Henry V, act 3, scene 1, line 3), "Play" (7), "look" (7), "Hear" ( 9), etc. Such phrasing gives enormous energy to the speech and we feel encouraged to take part in the show and make the most of it. The style is adjectival, as in the following line: “With silk banners young Phoebus [fans himself]”. (6) ; Imaginative, as when the Chorus compares ships at sea to “A city dancing on the fickle billows” (15). The speech also contributes to the heroic tone of the work, which is highly patriotic and celebratory, and which, together with many hyperbolic words, leads to creating an epic, exaggerated and almost mythical vision of the entire military operation: “I work, I work your thoughts, and there you see a siege: look at the ordnance on their carriages, with their fatal mouths wide open on the girded Harfleur. (25-27). The "artillery" on the "carriages" are likened to "fatal mouths" turning towards Harfleur as the English army begins its siege of the French city. The description of these mouths "opening" on Harfleur certainly helps to exaggerate the might of Henry's army. Henry's fleet is described as "majestic". (16). The Chorus wishes to present the fleet as powerful and numerous so as to exaggerate Henry's military might.