Name the figure of speech in this line by Alexander Pope.
"To err is human, to forgive divine."

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Two opposite ideas, erring and forgiving, human and divine, are set in balanced halves. That is antithesis.

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Name the figure of speech in this line by Alexander Pope."To err is human, to forgive divine."