Read the following excerpt from canto iv of dante's inferno, in which virgil
describes limbo:...
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Read the following excerpt from canto iv of dante's inferno, in which virgil
describes limbo:
suffering without torments drew these sighs
from crowds, multitudinous and vast,
of babies and of women and of men.
which sentence best explains dante's intended use of imagery in this
passage?
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a. the reference to babies, women, and men emphasizes how
miserable life can be no matter how old a person is.
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b. the words multitudinous and vast show that all people enter
limbo when they die.
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c. the phrase drew these sighs' indicates that limbo was still a
form of punishment.
d. the narrator suggests that only babies populate limbo, because
they have not sinned
( hurry)
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