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| What is Dante's (the author of Inferno) full name? |
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| Where did Dante originally live? That is, what famous city was his hometown? |
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| Although he actually wrote it later, what year does Dante claim the story in the Inferno took place? |
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| How do we know the Inferno was supposed to have taken place in 1300 AD? |
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| He says it took place at the halfway point of his life...so 1265 + 35 (a man is supposed to 70 years) = 1300 AD. |
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| A "canto" is something like a chapter. It is poetry term. |
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| How many cantos are there in the Inferno? |
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| 34...there are 33 regular cantos and an additonal canto that serves as the intro. |
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| The Inferno is just a third of Dante's longer poem. What is the whole poem called? |
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| How many total cantos are there in the Divine Comedy? |
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| What are the three divisions (or books) that make up the Divine Comedy? |
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| Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradisio |
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| What does Dante mean by the word "inferno?" |
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| What does Dante mean by the word "purgatorio?" |
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| He means "purgatory" which is a place in Catholic theology where sinners are purged of sin before entering heaven. |
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| Dante was one of the principal characters that helped usher in what great literary and historical movement? |
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| What was the great battle cry of the Renaissance? |
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| What does "ad fontes" mean? |
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| It means "back to the sources" or "back to the "fount" and refers to the Greek/Latin texts of the Classical Period. |
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| What is the name of Dante's first biographer? |
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| What two things make Dante's Divine Comedy unique? |
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| (1) It was written in Italian rather than Latin, (2) and he makes himself the central character in the poem. |
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| Why is the Divine Comedy considered to be a comedy? |
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| It is called a comedy because it has a happy ending as opposed to a tragedy which has an unhappy ending. |
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| Name the two artists most famous for illustrating Dante's Divine Comedy. |
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| Gustav Dore & Dante Rossetti |
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| Where was Dante when his political party lost control of Florence? |
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| He was a diplomatic trip to Rome. |
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| What happened as result of Dante's political party falling out of power? |
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| Dante wound up being exiled and was never able to return to Florence. |
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| What sentence was passed on Dante while he was in exile? |
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| He was condemned to be burned at the stake alive in abstentia. |
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| Who was the "love" and inspiration of Dante's life? |
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| How old was Beatrice when she died? |
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| In which work does Dante first mention Beatrice? |
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| What does the Roman poet Virgil represent in the Inferno? |
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| He represents human wisdom or reason. |
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| Dante was not just a poet but also served in the military early in his life. In what part of the army did he serve? |
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| Where does Canto 1 of the Inferno take place? |
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| It takes place in a dark, rough wood. |
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| Where is Dante traveling in Canto 1? |
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| He is traveling up a steep path to the "blissful summit" of a mountain (heaven). |
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| What blocks Dante's path in Canto 1? |
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| His path is blocked by three, terrifying beasts. |
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| What kind of beasts block his path in Canto 1? |
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| His path is blocked by a leopard, lion, and she-wolf. |
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| What do the three beasts in Canto 1 represent ? |
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| The leopard represents lust' the lion represents violence, and the she-wolf represents fraud or treachery. |
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| What kind of literary piece has symbols that represent or suggest other concepts or ideas? |
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| What is the "word" that indicates different tyes of literature? For example, what is a person referring to when they mention prose, or poetry, epic poetry, or drama. |
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| They are referring to its genre. |
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| Why does Dante paint himself to be so frightened and sensitive at the beginning of the Inferno? |
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| Probably because he wants to show his character development as he grows to understand the "justness" of hell. |
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| Who does Dante meet as he comes back down the slope in Canto 1? |
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| He meets the Roman poet Virgil? |
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| What does Virgil tell Dante in Canto 1 that he has been sent to do for him? |
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| He tells him he has been sent to lead him to heaven by a different path. |
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| In what time period (under what Roman emperors) does Virgil say he lived? |
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| He says he lived under the reign of both Julius and Augustus. |
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| Why does Dante have such regard for Virgil even in Canto 1? |
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| He loves Virgil because he says he learned his style of writing from reading Virgil. |
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| Why does Dante introduce Virgil as a person who has seemingly not spoken for a long time? |
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| He does so because Virgil has been dead for 1300 years...but now speaks again. |
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| Where do Virgil and Dante travel in Canto 2? |
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| They don't move. They simply stand and talk about how Virgil came to Dante. |
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| What question does Dante ask Virgil right of in Canto 2? |
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| Dante asks Virgil if he thinks he (Dante) is up to the trip to hell. |
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| In Canto 2, Dante says he is not like two other people who have either been to hell or had visions of the afterlife. What 2 characters does Dante mention? |
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| Aeneas and the Apostle Paul |
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| Virgil tells Dante someone sent him to guide Dante on his trip. Who was it? |
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| The mega-babe herself, Beatrice. |
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| In Canto 2, Virgil relates that Betrice told him that two other women in heaven encouraged her to help Dante. Who were they? |
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| They were Mary (the mother of Jesus) and Lucia. |
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| If three women in heaven feel sympathy for Dante why is Beatrice the one that actually descends to ask Virgil to help Dante? |
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| She is the one who helps because she already knows and loves Dante. |
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| What is Dante's response to Virgil's explanation of how he came to help in Canto 2? |
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| He says he is ready for the journey and ready for Virgil to lead on. |
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| What is the first thing Dante sees in Canto 3? |
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| He sees the inscription over the entrance into hell. |
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| What famous line is contained in the inscription in Canto 3? |
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| Abandon all hope you who enter here. |
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| What does the inscription in Canto 3 say is the reason hell was created? |
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| It was created to satisfy divine justice. |
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| What is the first group Dante and Virgil run across after passing through the entrance into hell? |
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| It is a group made up of people that both heaven and hell refuse to accept. |
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| What was the sin of the group Dante meets in the foyer of hell...the group rejected by both heaven and hell? |
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| Their sin was self-absorption. They did not care about anything but themselves. They were not evil enough for hell and not good enough for heaven. |
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| What group does Dante see in Canto 3 chasing after a banner? |
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| It is the group of newly arrived dead in hell rushing toward the river below. |
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| What is the name of the river in Canto 3 of Inferno? |
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| What are the other three rivers in hell in Dante's Inferno? |
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| Styx, Phlegethon, and Cocytus |
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| What is the ferryman's name that takes the dead over the River Acheron? |
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| What does Charon say to Dante? |
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| He tells him he may not pass by the path he is trying to take. He says it is reserved for the dead. |
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| To what image does Dante compare the damned falling into Charon's boat? |
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| He compares them to falling autumn leaves. |
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| Why do the sinners Dante see in Canto 3 blaspheme? |
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| They blaspheme because in hell no one can repent. |
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| What happens to Dante at the end of Canto 3? |
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| He passes out when an earthquake occurs. |
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| Why does Dante have his character pass out at the end of Canto 3? |
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| He wants to move the action along without spending any more time in the scene. |
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| What is the first circle in hell after the River Acheron called? |
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| Virtuous pagans and believers who were unbaptized. |
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| Are the inhabitants of Limbo tortured? |
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| No, their only punishment is that they can never go to heaven...so they sigh a lot. |
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| According to Virgil who (what group of people) actually got to leave Limbo for heaven? |
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| Virgil says the Old Testament saints left Limbo for heaven. |
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| Who led the OT saints from Limbo to heaven? |
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A Man of Power
(Jesus Christ) |
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| Why is Christ referred to as a Man of Power rather than as Jesus? |
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| His name is not allowed to be spoken in hell. |
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| Why is being remembered and honored on earth important to those in Limbo? |
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| It determines where people wind up in Limbo. The more honored a person is on earth the higher their status in Limbo. |
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| Name the other four poets that make up Virgil's group in Limbo. |
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| Homer, Horace, Lucian, and Ovid |
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| What honor does the group of poets extend to Dante? |
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| They let him join their group. |
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| Why is Dante's including himself in the group with the famous poets a bit arrogant? |
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| It is arrogant because it means he considers himself one of the six greatest poets of all time. |
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| Who is the character Saladin that Dante sees sitting by himself in Canto 4? |
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| Saladin is a famous MUslim conqueror. |
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| Who is the "master of the men of knowledge" Dante refers to in Canto 4? |
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| Who are the people around the castle in Canto 4? |
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| The people around the castle are a group of very famous, virtuous pagans. |
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| Who is the creepy bloke at the beginning of Canto 5 that assigns sinners to their appropriate level of hell? |
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| What is the sin of the group of people that Dante meets in level 2 of hell? |
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| Their sin is the sin of lust. |
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| How is the punishment of being blown around in hell by the wind representative of the sin of those Dante meets in level 2 of hell? |
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| The winds blows them around without regard to where they are going just like their lusts did. |
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| What is the extended simile (epic simile) used in Canto 5? |
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| It is an extended simile involving birds being pushed around by the wind. |
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| What famous characters does Dante see being pushed around by the wind in Canto 5? |
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| Cleopatra, Helen, Achilles, and Paris |
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| Who are the Paolo and Francesca mentioned in Canto 5? |
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| They are a young couple who comitted adultery and were then murdered by a jealous husband. |
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| What story were Francesca and Paolo reading that caused them to be swept away by their lusts? |
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| They were reading the story of Lancelot and Guinivere. |
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| What happens at the end of Canto 5? |
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| Alliteration is the repetition of an initial consonant in a line of poetry or prose. |
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| Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds within a phrase or line to create internal rhyming. |
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| Imagery is descriptive figurative language which creates word pictures for the reader implementing the five senses. |
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| Rhyme is the repetition of sounds at the end of words. It can also occur at the end of lines. |
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| Internal rhyme occurs when rhyming words appear in the same line. |
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| Allegory is a literary technique where almost every element in a story is symbolic of something else. |
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| A genre is a category or type of literature. There are three major genres: poetry, drama, and prose. |
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| A simile is a literary device in which two unlike ideas are compared using "like" or "as." |
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| A literary device in which unlike objects are directly compared. |
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| Define "personification." |
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| A type of figurative language in which human characteristics are given to inhuman objects. |
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| In C.S. Lewis' the Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe the "stone table" is an allegorical symbol for what? |
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| It is an allegorical symbol for the stone tablets of the Law of God. |
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| In C.S. Lewis' the Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe "Aslan" is an allegorical symbol for what? |
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| He is an allegorical symbol for the Lion of Judah, the Lord Jesus Christ. |
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| Who is the character Emily Grierson in William Faulkner's story A Rose for Emily. |
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| She is a snobbish, southern spinster living in virtual poverty after the death of father. |
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| What is Emily Grierson's conflict with the town she lives in? |
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| They want her to pay her taxes and she refuses. |
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| What did the town council of Jefferson do after Emily's house began to stink? |
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| The snuck over to her house late at night and sprinkled lime around it. |
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| He was a Yankee construction chief who dated and apparently jilted Emily Grierson while his crew worked in Jefferson. |
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| What reason did Emily give the druggist when she wanted to buy poison? |
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| She wouldn't tell him why. He assumed it was for rats. |
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| What did they find in Miss Emily's house after she died? |
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| They found what was left of Homer Barron in her bed. |
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| What does the narrator in Edgar Allan Poe's story the Cask of Amontillado hope to accomplish? |
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| He hopes to get revenge on someone named Fortunato. |
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| What weakness does Fortunato have that the narrator of the Cask of Amontillado hopes to take advantage of? |
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| Fortunato thinks he is an expert in wine. |
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| What does Montresor tell Fortunato he has just purchased? |
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| He tells him he has just purchased what he thinks is a barrel of Amontillado wine. |
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| What does Montresor intend to do to Fortunato in The Cask of Amontillado? |
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| He plans to lure him down into an underground cavern and kill him. |
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| What kind of costume is Fortunato wearing when Montresor runs across him at the carnival? |
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| He is wearing the costume of a fool...fairly ironic. |
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| What does in pace requiescat mean? |
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| What is it about his neighbor that makes the narrator of the Tell-Tale Heart by Poe want to kill him? |
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| He can't stand the man's filmy blue eye. |
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| What does the narrator of the Tell-Tale heart do every night prior to killing his neighbor? |
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| He sneaks into his room very quietly and shines a light on him to see if his blue eye is open. |
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| What finally gives the killer in the Tell-Tale Heart away? |
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| His conscience gets to him and he thinks he hears the old man's heart beating loudly, so he confesses. |
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