Well, the first reason is that back then, in Dante's time, "comedy" didn't really mean funny. In this case, it meant that even though the whole story/poem is full of despair and torture and torment, it actually ends with a happy ending. Back in Dante's era, this meant that instead of being a tragedy, this epic poem was considered a comedy.
Consider Shakespeare's work Romeo and Juliet. It ends with the two young lovers dying, right? That is a tragedy. There is no happiness there. But at the end of Inferno, Dante the Pilgrim actually succeeds in his goals. <span />
question asked:If a group of words has a noun phrase and a verb phrase, and expresses a complete thought, it is a _____.
A)fragment
B)complete sentence
C)topic sentence
My answer: I believe it is B. A complete sentence
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Answer:
Example of are contamination, contaminating, adulteration, adulterating, tainting, impurity, fouling, befouling, foulness, dirtiness, dirtying, soiling, filthiness, infection, infecting. purity.
One example that comes to my mind is physics. By Curie's principle, the symmetry of causes leads to a symmetry in the effects.
There are many other possible answers though (art for instance).