Characters
Dante Plot
Medieval Themes
Literary Devices
100

The name of the poet who guides Dante throughout Inferno

Who is Virgil?

100

The number of circles in hell.

What is 9?

100

The main trait of heroes like Beowulf in medieval stories

What is pride?

100

The repeated use of a sound consecutively

What is an alliteration?

200

The beloved women by Dante

Who is Beatrice?

200

The people who have escaped Limbo.

What is the OT saints?

200
The journey a hero goes on like Beowulf.
What is an epic?
200

What Beowulf does to prove his worth

What is a boast?

300

The Bible story/character that provides the origins of Grendel.

Who/what is Cain?

300

The reason there are shadows in hell

What is because Jesus didn't return?

300

The unnamed character that is responsible for the many landscape changes in hell such as at Limbo, the gates of the city, and the bottom of the 9th circle.

Who is Jesus?

300

The punishment that fits the crime committed in Dante

What is a contrapasso?

400

The king who represents the good in Beowulf that leads the Mead hall at the beginning of the story

Who is Hrothgar?

400

The main sins of the 7th and 8th circles

What is Violence and Fraud?

400

A highlighted medieval theme that Dante even acknowledges in the 8th circle through a group of characters who hold similar earthly authoritative positions

What is church corruption?

400

The movement of a plot starting at an all time low to the all time high

What is a comedy?

500

The first character that explains the state of Florence

Who is Ciacco?

500

The main things all of circles 1-5 of Dante have in common.

What is lacking self-control?

500

The thing that Beowulf and Dante do with mythology

What is turning those stories Christian?

500

The purpose of a kenning

What is to paint a picture of the character so it's easier to remember.
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