Characters
The name of the poet who guides Dante throughout Inferno
Who is Virgil?
The number of circles in hell.
What is 9?
The main trait of heroes like Beowulf in medieval stories
What is pride?
The repeated use of a sound consecutively
What is an alliteration?
The beloved women by Dante
Who is Beatrice?
The people who have escaped Limbo.
What is the OT saints?
What Beowulf does to prove his worth
What is a boast?
The Bible story/character that provides the origins of Grendel.
Who/what is Cain?
The reason there are shadows in hell
What is because Jesus didn't return?
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?
The punishment that fits the crime committed in Dante
What is a contrapasso?
The king who represents the good in Beowulf that leads the Mead hall at the beginning of the story
Who is Hrothgar?
The main sins of the 7th and 8th circles
What is Violence and Fraud?
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?
The movement of a plot starting at an all time low to the all time high
What is a comedy?
The first character that explains the state of Florence
Who is Ciacco?
The main things all of circles 1-5 of Dante have in common.
What is lacking self-control?
The thing that Beowulf and Dante do with mythology
What is turning those stories Christian?
The purpose of a kenning