FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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a funny story.
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a religious epic.
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a tale with a happy ending.
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a masterpiece of Western literature.
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Detailed explanation-1: -It might not sound all that funny, but Dante called his epic poem a comedy because, unlike tragedies that begin on a high note and end tragically, comedies begin badly but end well.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Divine Comedy is a long narrative poem which explores Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven from the perspective of the author, Dante. It’s actually a first-person narrative where Dante imagines his own journey to salvation.
Detailed explanation-3: -The work is regarded as a comedy because, in a classical context, as opposed to a contemporary one, a comedy is a work that deals with explaining the beliefs of an ordered universe. The Divine Comedy is considered one of the most important pieces of world literature.
Detailed explanation-4: -The poem is called a “comedy” in the medieval-Aristotelian sense that it leads from misery to a state of happiness. Dante’s salvation is “comic” in that it culminates in joy.