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Simile in Dante's Inferno

Simile Examples in Dante's Inferno:

Canto 2

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"like a beast At some false semblance in the twilight gloom..."   (Canto 2)

In a typical Dantean simile, the poet compares his own fear of the underworld to the fear of a wild beast who is afraid of shadows in the twilight.

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