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Read the passage from "An Essay on Man.”

Self-love and reason to one end aspire,
Pain their aversion, pleasure their desire;

Which evaluation is best supported by the passage?

Pope uses antithesis and a heroic couplet to show a similarity between self-love and reason.
Pope uses repetition to create a rhythm that draws attention to the relationship between self-love and reason.
Pope contrasts self-love with reason to emphasize how Enlightenment thinkers value logic.
Pope contrasts Enlightenment views on pain and pleasure to explain how self-love is superior to logic.

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"Pope uses antithesis and a heroic couplet to show a similarity between self-love and reason."

Explanation: The two-line heroic couplet uses balanced, contrasting terms (pain vs. pleasure) to highlight that both self-love and reason share the same aim — they both avoid pain and seek pleasure — so the antithesis emphasizes their similar motivation.