Asked by bob

Read the excerpt from An Essay on Man.

Go, wondrous creature! mount where science guides,
Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides;
Instruct the planets in what orbs to run,
Correct old time, and regulate the sun;

Which statement is correct?

Antithesis is used in the first two lines.
Antithesis is used in the last two lines.
Parallelism is used in the first two lines.
Parallelism is used in the last two lines.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Parallelism is used in the last two lines.

Explanation: "Instruct the planets..." and "Correct old time, and regulate the sun" are balanced imperatives with similar grammatical structure (series of commands), which is parallelism. Antithesis (contrasting ideas in parallel form) isn't present here.