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26 Cards in this Set
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Vernacular |
The language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region
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Allegory
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A story in which characters, settings, or actions are symbolic
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Contrapasso
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Resembling or contrasting with the sin itself (poetic justice) |
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Taxonomy
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Classification/categorization of human evil |
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Schadenfreude
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"Harm-joy" |
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Liminality
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The space between 2 opposing binaries |
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Vestibule |
Uncommitted |
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Suburban Hell |
Committed
Committed to a particular sin Defining commitment is not to God |
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City of Dis
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Rebels |
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Significance of the trinity |
3 line stanzas (tercets) |
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Who are the great human betrayers?
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Judas, Cassius, and Brutus |
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Who is the WORST betrayer of all? |
Satan |
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When does The Inferno begin and end?
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Begins on Good Friday |
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Be able to name the seven deadly sins |
Wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony |
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The story of Paolo and Francesca and why Dante identifies with them |
Francesca was bound in marriage to an old and deformed man, she eventually fell in love with Paolo, her husband’s younger brother. One day, as she and Paolo sat reading an Arthurian legend about the love of Lancelot and Guinevere, each began to feel that the story spoke to their own secret love. When they came to a particularly romantic moment in the story, they could not resist kissing. Francesca’s husband quickly discovered their transgression and had the young lovers killed. Now Paolo and Francesca are doomed to spend eternity in the Second Circle of Hell. |
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Reason is the highest good without God |
Virgil guides Dante |
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City of Dis
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Fortress, not a prison |
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Hierarchy of medieval society
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Clergy - those who pray |
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Addiction versus proportionate desire
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God creates all thing, so all things are good |
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Dante’s defining commitment
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God in order to be granted salvation
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Story of Pope Nicolas
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Strong condemnation of the clergy sins |
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Story of Ulysses in hell
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Evil counselor - shows the subjective nature of hell |
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Story of Monk Guido
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Christian evil counselor |
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Constant struggle between total condemnation and pity
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Constant struggle between condemnation (155) and pity (161) |
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Dante’s temptation to be an adventurer and gain knowledge
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The quest for adventure |
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Why is betrayal the worst sin?
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Community - make order out of chaos; betrayal creates chaos |