Questions
Dante: Inferno, Canto I, lines 1-21
- Which best describes the setting of this passage?
- in heaven among the clouds
- under a blanket in a bed
- off the path in the woods
- near the ocean
- According to lines 10-17, what caused the speaker's fear to lessen?
- feeling his heart beat
- seeing the sun's rays
- flexing his shoulder muscles
- thinking about God
- This description is told as a flashback. In other words, the speaker lets us know that the events are not happening in the present tense. Rather, the speaker is remembering in the present something that happened in the past.
What clues are given in the passage to indicate that this is a flashback?
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- Using evidence from the reading passage, explain why the speaker
was so frightened.
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