The literary device that Chaucer uses most in the excerpt is irony. (Option B)
An Irony is the expression of one's meaning by using language that indicates the opposite of what one actually means.
An example of irony is:
"A man selling his watch to buy his wife a gold necklace and the wife inadvertently selling her necklace to buy her man a watch."
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