Dante's Inferno Rhetorical Analysis Essay

During canto 34, Dante uses an incisive tone. Dante uses words like risen from the ground, fear, blood ran cold to illustrate the feelings that Dante was going through during the last circle of Hell. He uses this tone to describe how scared Dante was and how much horror was in such a cold, icy place. The tone is created by using vivid imagery, to illustrate the scene, to give the readers an understanding of what it might feel or look like. He uses visual imagery by using words such as "white and bile" or "shaggy coat". These and other types like auditory, taticle, gustatory, and olfactoy types of imagery were used to have the feeling that the reader was within the ninth circle of Hell. This imagery gives the reader a sense of what it might