LUOA Dante's Inferno Cantos 9, 24, 26, 34 Review

-Fame is necessary to leave a mark on the world that lasts beyond a man's short years on earth. -A strong mind can overcome weakness in the body.

Virgil also proposes two things: (What are they?)

Virgil is like a peasant farmer who wakes up and sees frost but thinks it is snow. If snow has fallen, then the farmer's herding animals will not get good fodder. However, the day warms up a little, the frost disappears, and the farmer is happy because now his herding animals will get good fodder. The farmer can take his sheep out to pasture. In this case, Virgil can lead his "sheep" Dante toward Heaven once he realizes what to do.

What does this metaphor reveal about Virgil's mindset?

He has traveled this way before and knows the way.

What important information does Virgil share about his own experiences when he talks about Erichtho?

Virgil says, "There is a longer stair that must be climbed." This statement foreshadows the end of the poem where Dante will climb up Satan's legs to leave Hell and enter Purgatory.

What is an example of foreshadowing in this canto?

situational irony

What type of literary device is used in the example given below? Emperor of the Woeful Kingdom

Ironic Comparison & Allusion

What type of literary device is used in the example given below? I never saw such massive sails at sea.

The motif of three

What type of literary device is used in the example given below? Three faces: red, yellow, black

Fame

What, according to Virgil, will be lost if Dante gives into sloth and remains on the ground, recovering from his climb?

Heretics

Who is trapped in the open, burning coffins inside the Gates of Dis?

He wants to cause Dante a small amount of the suffering he feels.

Why did Fucci reveal this prophecy to Dante?

The furies threaten to show the head of Medusa.

Why does Virgil cover Dante's eyes?

Erichtho

A Thessalian witch would could call the spirits of the recently dead back to their bodies. Dante creates a history between her and Virgil.

Medusa

A monster-woman with living snakes in her hair. Whoever looks at her face turns to stone. In mythology, the demigod Perseus cut off her head and Athena puts it on her shield.

He did not want to stop traveling.

According to The Inferno, Canto 26, why did Ulysses (Odysseus) not return home after leaving Circe's island?

Apsotrophe

As seen in The Inferno, what is the name for the literary device that is an exclamatory speech addressed to someone or something that can not answer back?

Horrified and unsteady

Based on lines 22-27, which words could best be used to describe Dante's mood?

Tolomea

For those who were treacherous against guests. Some are totally buried under the ice.

Caina

For those who were treacherous against kin or family (named after Cain who killed his brother Abel). They are buried in ice up to their face.

Judecca

For those who were treacherous against their benefactors, especially God. This is where Satan is held.

Antenora

For those who were treacherous against their countries or political parties.

The penitent Christian life

From The Divine Comedy, what does the mountain of Purgatory represent?

Beatrice

From The Divine Comedy, who is Dante's guide through Paradise?

A narrow stream

How will Virgil and Dante leave the Inferno?

Reason can not take you far without faith.

If Virgil is an allegory to represent Human Reason, what might this incident at the gate of Dis reveal?

Thieves

In The Inferno, Canto 24, what type of sin is being punished by attacking, venomous snakes.

Fame

In The Inferno, Canto 24, what, according to Virgil, is necessary to make a lasting mark on the world?

Phoenix

In The Inferno, Canto 24, which mythical creature is Vanni Fucci compared to?

-Both twist good ideas and words as a manipulation. -Both insist on pursuing forbidden knowledge. -Both claim that turning away from a desire is a denial of self.

In The Inferno, Canto 26, How are Ulysses's words to his men similar to the serpent in the Garden?

-Creating the Trojan horse -Manipulating his men to their deaths

In The Inferno, Canto 26, what sins sent Odysseus (Ulysses) to the eighth circle of hell?

Sarcastic

In The Inferno, Canto 26, which word best describes the tone in Dante's address to Florence: "Take joy, O Florence, for you are so great / your wings beat over land and sea, / your fame resounds through Hell!"

By climbing down and up Satan's legs

In The Inferno, Canto 34, how do Virgil and Dante escape Dis?

Locked in ice

In The Inferno, Canto 34, how is Satan trapped?

4

In The Inferno, Canto 34, how many sections of Circle 9 exist?

It was the land Satan displaced when he fell from Heaven.

In The Inferno, Canto 34, how was the mountain of Purgatory created?

The banners of the king of hell advance.

In The Inferno, Canto 34, what does the opening line translate to? "Vexilla regis prodeunt inferni"

Dante is moving upward toward God.

In The Inferno, Canto 34, what is the symbolic significance of the last word: stars?

Simile

In The Inferno, Canto 34, which literary device is being used in these lines to describe Satan's wings? "They had no feathers but looked just like a bat's, / And he kept flapping these wings up and down"

Satan can never move anywhere.

In The Inferno, Canto 36, Dante compares Satan's wings to sails on a ship. Why is this ironic?

Odysseus had his men tie him to the mast to resist the sirens.

In The Inferno, Canto 9, Virgil covers Dante's eyes when the head of Medusa appears. What classical work might this be a reference to?

Dis

In The Inferno, Canto 9, what is the name of the city that encompasses Circles 6-9 and holds Satan.

He would be turned to stone.

In The Inferno, Canto 9, what would happen to Dante if he looked at Medusa's head?

The furies

In The Inferno, Canto 9, who flies over the gates holding the head of Medusa?

He follows Virgil without fear and with faith.

In what ways has Dante grown, as demonstrated by his climb?

Cerberus

Pluto's (in Greek myths, Hades') three headed dog.

Theseus

The mythological founder of Athens. He is famous for defeating the Minotaur and faced the furies.

poisonous snakes biting them for eternity

The punishment Thieves are subjected to in hell in Dante's Inferno.

The furies

Three sisters who are sometimes considered the goddesses of vengeance.

turn into war

Vanni Fucci's reference to Mars ("Next Mars draws up a bolt from Val di Magra") indicates that the conflict will...