ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Alexander Pope, poet of the Enlightenment, lent a famous line from his 1711 treatise An Essay on Criticism to the US Institutes of Medicine’s report on patient safety: To Err is Human. The remainder of the line, “to forgive divine, ” would have further reinforced the report’s message.

Detailed explanation-2: -To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Detailed explanation-3: -: it is normal for people to make mistakes.

Detailed explanation-4: -The saying “to err is human, to forgive is divine” has been in use since it was coined by Alexander Pope in the early 18th century. Our intention is to stop erring or sinning because we love the Lord and wish to obey him as a result.

Detailed explanation-5: -The correct answer is option (3). "To err is human, to forgive is divine” could be a figure of speech referred to as antithesis. A figure of speech that has what seems to be a contradiction of ideas, terms, clauses, or sentences within a sound grammatical framework is called an antithesis.