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Use Of Elevated Language In Dante's Inferno

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How Elevated Language was Used in Dante's Inferno
Dante’s Inferno successfully uses many types of literary techniques to make the story more relatable and easier to understand. He accomplishes this task by using Verisimilitude, imagery, and allusions to Greek and Roman Mythology countless times. While Dante was in the Seventh Circle “The deep, fetid valley began to shake”(Dante 95.35). This allowed the reader to visualize how earthquakes and other events similar to those on earth take place within hell . A further technique for making the book understandable to everyday readers is imagery. To explain the complex illustration of demons throwing sinners into a pit of boiling tar, Dante’s Inferno compares the scene to cooks pressing “their scullions...to
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