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Select the best answer and click "submit." read this excerpt from canto xx of dante's inferno, in which virgil describes the punishment of false prophets and fortune tellers: because their faces turned round to their haunches so that they were compelled to walk backwards since they could not possibly see ahead. which sentence best explains dante's intended use of symbolism in this passage? a. the sinners' compulsion to look backward darkly mirrors their strained attempts to see into the future in life. b. the figurative language is able to make abstract ideas, like compulsion, more concrete for the reader. c. the sinners' heads are twisted around so that they can only see where they're going by walking backward. d. the compulsion to walk backwards represents the sinners' preoccupation with practices from the primitive past.

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