1. INFERNO Terms
ALLEGORY:
A story whose literal plot deals entirely in symbols, instilling the story with a second level of meaning implied by, but broader than, the events of the narrative

2. Allegory in Inferno
Part of Medieval literary tradition
Everyman character undergoes trials and tribulations in his search to find the soul’s true path in life
Dante’s connection: all people know some form of sin and thus wander lost in a dark wood; path to righteousness

3. TERCET – three line stanza
INFERNO Terms
TERCET – three line stanza
“Midway in our life’s journey, I went astray
from the straight road and woke to find myself
alone in a dark wood. How shall I” (4)

4. INFERNO Terms
INTERTEMPORALITY —the mingling of elements from different time periods. Dante’s characters can see beyond their time on Earth because in death they exist outside of time.
Intertemporality is part of the medieval tradition; biblical characters, for example, were almost always represented in art as wearing medieval clothing.