1. Dante’s Inferno Vocabulary
Canto I and III

2. allegory
A literary work with two levels of meaning- the literal and the symbolic. Details, characters, and plot points have an equivalent symbolic meaning.

3. Example: Inferno

4. Imagery
Use of language that appeals to one or more of the five senses and creates mental pictures for the reader. Imagery is used by Dante to make the journey through hell real.

5. Flounders
VERB Struggles to move

6. ADJECTIVE QUIVERING; SHAKING
tremulous
ADJECTIVE QUIVERING; SHAKING

7. zeal
NOUN Ardor; fervor

8. flounders
Just as a swimmer, who with his last breath flounders ashore from perilous seas

9. “My voice grew tremulous”

10. zeal
“Now may that zeal and love’s apprenticeship that I poured out on your heroic verses serve me well!”