Question
Answer the following about poetic verse forms in Italian literature, for 10 points each.
[10e] Dante used a hendecasyllabic terza rima scheme for this work that depicts his journey as a pilgrim from Hell to Paradise. This work’s three parts are Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.
ANSWER: The Divine Comedy [or Divina Commedia]
[10h] Because of the difficulty of writing in terza rima, the late Renaissance saw the rise of ottava rima, which Ludovico Ariosto used to write this work about a knight of Charlemagne.
ANSWER: Orlando Furioso
[10m] Both The Divine Comedy and Orlando Furioso were divided into these sections, whose name derives from the Italian word for “sing.” Ezra Pound wrote a long poem titled for and consisting of 120 of these sections.
ANSWER: cantos [or canti]
<Literature - European Literature>
Summary
| 2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers) | 10/14/2023 | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 83% | 83% | 0% |
Data
| Fordham | Columbia A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU A | Lehigh | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| University of Delaware A | NYU C | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NYU B | Rowan | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Penn | Swarthmore A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Swarthmore B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |