Circles 1-3 Figurative Language

In the Signet Classic translation of Dante Alighieri’s The Inferno, there is a

rhyming pattern very similar to the Italian verse form called “Terza Rima”. The
entire book is written in a rhyming verse form compiled of three-line, 11-syllable
verses, with the middle line of one verse rhyming with the first and third lines of
the next. My best guess is that this was the original verse form of the Inferno, but
I have never read book in its original Italian.

Dante also uses a lot of figurative language in the complex “Terza Rima” writing
pattern.

Some examples are…

Figurative Language Example Location
Type
Assonance Go, Follow Canto IV, Lines 13 and
Fire, Desire 15
Canto IV, Lines 40 and
42
Alliteration Willed where what Canto V, Line 23
is willed must be
Simile Howl like dogs Canto VI, Line 17