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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; / But greedy that, its object would devour, / This taste the honey, and not wound the flow'r

The author contrasts words with positive and negative connotations to

a. create humor.

b. encourage debate.

c. clarify his argument.

d. make an emotional appeal.