Dante Terms
"The Inferno" is a part of a much larger literary work. What is the name of the WHOLE work?
What is The Divine Comedy?
Virgil is a fitting guide for Dante for this reason
What is, he is a virtuous pagan and another epic poet?
He transports souls across the Acheron river into Hell
Who is Charon?
The three sinners Satan chews in his mouth
Who are Brutus, Cassius, and Judas
This one question changed Montag's perspective on life
What is, are you happy?
"The Inferno" is an Italian literary work from the 1200s. What genre of literature is "The Inferno?"
What is an epic poem (a long poem that tells a story)
Dante's chain of four heavenly intercessors
Who are the Virgin Mary, St. Lucy, Rachel, and Beatrice?
The punishment for the opportunists/indifferent who made no decision to serve God in the Vestibule of Hell
What is they are naked and stung continuously by gadflies and wasps. Their faces bleed and worms eat at their feet. They run after a blank banner.
Describe Dante's Satan
What is, he is taller than giants, has bat wings, three heads, etc. He is trapped in a block of ice from his waist down.
The main reason the government censored books
What is, to limit free thinking and questioning
A divine justice in which a sinner's punishment symbolically reflects the sin he/she committed on earth
What is contrapasso?
Dante feels unworthy of divine knowledge and contrasts himself with this epic hero and this saint
Who are Aeneas and St. Paul?
Who is Odysseus?
What is, the ice mirrors how a traitor's betrayal breaks the warm ties of love and trust, leaving the sinner in a cold and isolated condition.
Fire symbolizes both ___ and ___.
The idea that all of creation is ranked in a divine order, with God at the top, followed by angels, animals, plants, and finally, inanimate objects
What is The Great Chain of Being?
Feeling sleepy and being lost in the dark woods are symbolic of this
Odysseus died in this way in Dante's story
What is a shipwreck in the uncharted western sea?
The center of the earth, in Dante, is symbolic of this
What is, sin: it is the farthest point away from God
Why did Montag take whiskey, a suitcase, and some of Faber's dirty clothes with him?
What is, he needed some strong-smelling things to throw the mechanical dogs off his scent.
The model of the solar system in which the earth is at the center, the planets and sun wander around the earth, and beyond these lie the fixed stars and the Empyrean
The three animals Dante encounters in the forest
What is a leopard, a lion, and a she-wolf?
What is the final line in the inscription above the gate of Hell?
What is "All hope abandon, ye who enter here"?
What is, the Empyrean?
What book did Montag's memory preserve?
What is, the Book of Ecclesiastes?