Poetic Structure in Pope’s Essay on Man

Question 2 of 17 • NY-English Language Arts 12 CR

Which lines are the best example of antithesis?

Answer

Know, then, thyself, presume not God to scan;The proper study of mankind is man.

Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,A being darkly wise, and rudely great:

Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;

Go, soar with Plato to th’ empyreal sphere,To the first good, first perfect, and first fair

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