Esercizio 1 (pag. 125 - 126)

words which are particularly important to create Hell as a physical place:

• fiery Gulfe
• waste
• wilde
• horrible dungeon
• great furnace
• flames
• no light
• darkness
• fiery deluge
• every-burning sulphur
• their portion set as far removed from God and light of Heaven as from the center thrice to th'utmost Pole

words which are particularly important to creat Hell as a moral place:

• lost happiness
• lasting pain
• huge affliction
• dismay
• sights of woe
• regions of sorrow
• doleful shades
• peace and rest can never dwell
• hope never comes
• torture without end

Esercizio 2

a)     Alliteration:

Waste - wilde = desolation

Mortal - men

His - horrid = horror

Furnace - flamed - from - flames = fire

Served - sights

b)     Assonance:

Nine - times = "i"

c)     Assonance and consonance:

Wrath - thought - both = consonance "th"

Here - thir = assonance "i"

Thrice - th'utmost = consonance "th"

Place - whence = consonance "ce"

Esercizio 3

In the extract ther's 1 end-stopped line.

Run-on lines create a sense of expectation and suspence. The reading does not stop because there are a lot of enjambement and therefore ther's a continuous movement from one line to the next.

Esercizio 4

Unusual word order:

Dismal situation waste and wilde

Dungeon horrible

Darkness visible

Such place Eternal Justice had prepar'd

The unusual word order makes the reader understand the importance of some words. The poet adopts this linguistic choice to give more relevance to some words. So that the reader can better imagine the situation.