Read the passage from "An Essay on Man.”Self-love and reason to one end aspire,Pain their aversion, pleasure their desire;

Pope pairs “self-love and reason” as forces that “to one end aspire,” showing that they share a goal. He also contrasts “pain” with “pleasure,” an example of antithesis. The two rhyming lines form a heroic couplet, so choice A best describes how the poetic form and contrast convey the similarity between self-love and reason.

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