The punishment for these sinners involves their heads being twisted backwards in accordance to their crime.
What is the fortune tellers?
100
The age of Dante when he met the woman he would love for the rest of his life: Beatrice
What is nine years old
100
The use of intelligence to deliberately and manipulatively hurt others.
What is fraud
100
The animal that appears in Canto I and signifies lack of self-control.
What is the she-wolf
100
The location in Hell where Dante first demonstrates excessive pride or hubris
What is Limbo (Circle I)
200
These sinners are consistently forced to chase an ever-changing banner while being stung by wasps and hornets.
What is the opportunists
200
A work which begins in utter despair and ends in happiness.
What is a Medieval Comedy
200
This word categorizes Dante's experience as fantastical and seemingly out of the ordinary.
What is surreal
200
The symbolic number that occurs throughout the structuring and organization of Dante's Inferno.
What is three
200
The type of imagery used in the quote, "His hands are claws to rip the wretches and flay and mangle them."
What is touch (tactile imagery)
300
The punishment for these TWO groups of sinners is to forever clash weights (heavy boulders) against each other for all eternity.
What is the Hoarders and Wasters
300
The two major political factions that Florence was broken into while Dante was growing up.
What is the Guelfs and the Ghibellines
300
The vocabulary word for something that requires immediate attention; describes something of great importance.
What is imperative
300
The mythological figure in Dante's Inferno that is associated with judgment.
What is Minos
300
The excerpt in Inferno where Virgil reassures Dante that several women in heaven are concerned for him best represents this part of plot.
What is rising action
400
These sinners are sunk in a boiling tar pitch and guarded by demons who tear at them if they catch them above the surface of the pitch.
What is the Grafters
400
The number of years it took Dante to write Inferno while in exile.
What is eight
400
The vocabulary word related to the evil intent or desire to inflict injury on another individual.
What is malice
400
Literary epics depict a hero of the _________ whereas earlier Greek epics depict a hero of the _____________.
What is spirit; battlefield
400
The quote "Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood" represents Dante's use of this literary technique.
What is In Medias Res
500
In Dante's version of Hell, these sinners are trapped in the form of trees, and can only express themselves when broken or torn.
What is the suicides (the violent against themselves)
500
The book of poetry and prose that Dante published in honor of Beatrice after her death.
What is the Vita Nuova (The New Life)
500
The Italian phrase for the rhymed 3-line stanzas that the Inferno is famous for.
What is terza rima
500
Judas, who is eternally chomped on by satan, symbolically represents this sin.
What is treachery against masters/benefactors?
500
Early in the Inferno, Dante instructs Virgil to add to the sinner Filippo Argenti's punishment. Filippo is part of this circle of Hell.