Dante's Inferno Canto 1 Questions and
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what is a canto?
Ans: division of a long poem (chapter)
what is an allegory?
Ans: work with 2 layers of meaning, the 2nd more deep an d
meaningful
how is the divine comedy an allegory?
Ans: it's putting a deeper meaning on dantes struggles in his
life or humanities struggles to stay of on the right path
how are the opening of the illiad and canto 1 different?
Ans: the illiad explains things in a more surface level way and
canto 1 explains things in a deeper way
what year did dante write the divine comedy? how old was he?
Ans: 1308, 43 years old
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