2.2.6 Analyze the Effect of an authors choice

1. What choices does an author make in order to craft the messages conveyed in a work of literature?

2. Why type of poem is the Inferno?

3. How do the real-life and fictional Dante differ from each other? Why did Dante create this difference?

4. How does Dante use setting to get across his beliefs about God?

5. How does Dante use language to express his views about sinners? Does he view all sinners in the same way?

6. When did Chaucer write The Canterbury Tales?

7. In what way do some of Chaucer's views of what causes suffering differ from the views Dante expresses in the Inferno?

9. In what ways are Chaucer's views similar to Dante's?

10. How do Chaucer and Dante differ in how they show their characters being punished?

11. What is a key theme in Dante's Inferno?