Despite the actual representation of this picture, what could this “real” picture be saying on a symbolic level?

Dante’s Inferno

• Objectives:– Students will learn and understand the symbolism,

metaphors, and allegory Dante uses to establish his structure, themes, and concepts.

– Students will be able to identify the characteristics of epic poetry Dante borrows from various poets in antiquity including the Gilgamesh author, Homer, and Virgil.

– Students will be able to synthesize multiple sources and create claims and use supporting evidence to support their claims.

Group Activity

• On your group’s whiteboard, make a bullet point list of the ways the artist captures the experience of your group’s stage of life.

Things to consider: Color Images Scenery

Allegory vs. Symbolism

• A symbol is a word, place, character, or object that means something beyond what it is on a literal level.

• An allegory involves using many interconnected symbols or allegorical figures in such as way that in nearly every element of the narrative has a meaning beyond the literal level

Word Choice in Allegory

• It is not only symbols that create an allegorical work, but even word choice…Dante establishes this in the first line. Which word does he use to establish allegory?

HomeworkJust like previous claim assignments, your homework is to compose two claims:1) What is the allegorical concept of these images and what techniques does the artist use to achieve this allegory?

2) Write your own claim based on the allegorical concept and or technique.

Oration Claim Example

• Claim: In an attempt to appeal to their audiences’ emotion, all of the orators choose to speak in a patriotic way. However, Pericles does this best because he invoked the audiences’ national pride more powerfully than any of the other speeches.

Oration Example

• In an attempt to appeal to their audiences’ emotion (pathos), all of the orators choose to speak at hallowed grounds where citizens of their respective communities lost their lives; however, since the location of Bush’s speech is at the grounds where unsuspecting citizens lost their lives due to a terrorist attack- as opposed to lives lost on a battlefield where soldiers and citizens alike would expect such a loss- he is better able to appeal to his audience’s pathos, invoke national pride, and incite them to action.