3rd Time's a Charm
Hellish Figures
Allegorically Speaking
Divine Devices
Bad Backdrops
100
These three guides help Dante travel his journey.
What is Virgil, Beatrice, and St. Bernard?
100
He has eyes of coal surrounded by rings of fire.
Who is Charon?
100
Dante is the first epic hero to represent this.
What/who is "everyman"?
100
This figurative language device is used when the sinners at the River Acheron are said to stream in "as leaves in autumn loosen and stream down."
What is a simile?
100
This is where we find Dante in Canto I.
What is the Dark Woods of Error / Worldliness?
200
The Divine Comedy takes place over the course of these three days.
What is Good Friday, Saturday, and Easter Sunday?
200
She blames her affair on a book about Guinevere & Lancelot.
Who is Francesca?
200
Dante's literal journey represents this type of journey for readers.
What is a spiritual journey (to redemption)?
200
This device is used when Helen, Cleopatra, Achilles, Judas, Brutus, Cassius, and many other well-known figures appear in Hell.
What is allusion?
200
This is where Dante witnesses the pain of the Opportunists.
What/where is the Vestibule of Hell?
300
These are the names of the three parts of the Divine Comedy trilogy.
What is Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso?
300
His tail determines what ring of Hell you wind up in.
Who is Minos?
300
Because it is this time of year, readers would represent that Canto I allegorically foreshadows spiritual rebirth.
What is the Easter season?
300
This device occurs when an author directly talks to the reader.
What is authorial intrusion?
300
Dante sees Francesca & Paolo in this circle of Hell (name the circle # and the type of sin punished there).
What is Circle 2: Carnal/Lustful Sin?
400
This rhyme scheme, utilized by Dante, goes aba bcb cdc.
What is terza rima?
400
He resides in Hell because he was a virtuous pagan who existed before Christ.
Who is Virgil?
400
The ever-wavering banner in the vestibule of hell allegorically represents this.
What is the sin of the opportunists?
400
This is the fourth round (subsection) of Circle 9, named for a particular sinner.
What is Judecca?
500
These are the three major categories of sin captured in the nine rings of hell.
What is sins of incontinence, sins of violence and ambition, and sins of fraud?
500
These sinners are in Satan's left & right mouths (not the center mouth).
Who are Brutus and Cassius?
500
This is allegorically represented by the stormy wind in Canto V.
What is lustful passion?
500
This device is utilized by Dante the author on the inscription over the gates of Hell.
What is anaphora?
500
This is the river that washes all memory of sin down from Mount Purgatory to the center of the Earth.
What is the River Lethe?
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