canto

Examples

• All

• Dante meets him in Canto 15 of the Inferno, in the section of hell where sodomy is punished.

  Academic text (1991)

• The end of canto three features Darwin's most extended and far-fetched metaphor.

  Academic text (1993)

• These lines are for the ultimate Canto, whatever AI may write in the interim.

  Harvard University

• And now that's how the canto ends and we start with the next canto.

• It's entitled From the Last Canto of Paradise, From the last Canto of Paradise.

• For his final lecture, he spoke on the last canto of Dante's Inferno, a classy way to go out.

  Academic text (2011)

• Reynolds discusses two more episodes in Ulysses where Joyce refers to Canto 15 of the Inferno.

  Academic text (1991)

• In the "Canto a Bolivar," it is Huaina-Capac who orates; the voice of the Inca dominates the other figures.

  Academic text (2018)

• "The Canto of Ulysses" in Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz is an extreme example of a modern katabasis.

  Academic text (2010)

• In the third canto of the epic, the hero faces a daunting challenge.

Compounds

B

bel canto

• Specialized

1 9.1

A smooth, lyrical way of singing in opera that shows a pure voice and quick, skillful notes

How Long

canto

• Literature

1 9.3

stanza

• Literature

12 4.4

quatrain

• Literature

2 7.4

tercet

• Literature

8.6

couplet

• Literature

4 5.9

Surface Forms

Etymology