ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

DANTE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Dante wrote “The Inferno” using which of the following original poetic devices?
A
Rhyming Couplets
B
Terza Rima
C
Free Verse
D
alliteration
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Terza rima was invented early in the fourteenth century by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri for his narrative poem the Divine Comedy, which he set in hendecasyllabic lines.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dante used terza rima in his Divine Comedy; there, it has been noted, the three-line stanza may allude to the Trinity.

Detailed explanation-3: -Terza rima was invented by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri in the late thirteenth century to structure his three-part epic poem, The Divine Comedy. Dante chose to end each canto of the The Divine Comedy with a single line that completes the rhyme scheme with the end-word of the second line of the preceding tercet.

Detailed explanation-4: -Dante Alighieri uses metaphors not only throughout his poem ‘Inferno, ’ but even sets the poem up as an extended metaphor. Read this lesson to learn more about Dante’s use of metaphors and significance to the poem.

Detailed explanation-5: -An Italian stanzaic form, used most notably by Dante Alighieri in Commedia (The Divine Comedy), consisting of tercets with interwoven rhymes (ABA BCB DED EFE, and so on).

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