| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Dante | Author of The Divine Comedy |
| Dante's ethnicity | Italian |
| cantos | long sections in a narrative poem |
| cantos in The Divne Comedy | 100 |
| vernacular | common, everyday language |
| "Inferno" | the first section of The Divine Comedy |
| 3 parts of the Divine Comedy | "Inferno," "Purgatorio," and Paradiso" |
| allegory | characters, settings, and events have symbolic meaning |
| language of The Divine Comedy | vernacular |
| Virgil | virtuous pagan |
| Dante's guide | Virgil |
| Roman poet | represents human reason |
| symbol | person, place, object, or event that represents itself and something else |
| example of a symbol | Dante's journey & Satan's three faces |
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