The Divine Comedy is an epic poem that charts the soul's journey toward God. This description most closely matches which work?

• A. The Divine Comedy
• B. The Koran
• C. Psalm 23
• D. Metonymy

Answer: (A)

An epic poem that follows a soul's journey toward God is being described here. This description fits Dante's The Divine Comedy, which chronicles the narrator’s journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise in a single, sweeping pilgrimage toward the divine. The work uses allegory to explore sin, repentance, and salvation, turning personal ascent into a universal moral and spiritual voyage. Its three-part structure—Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso—maps the stages of the soul’s ascent and culminates in the sight of God, illustrating how moral choices shape the path to divine union.

The Koran is a sacred scripture, not an epic narrative framed as a pilgrimage of a single soul toward God. Psalm 23 is a short devotional poem about God’s guidance and protection, not a long epic journey. Metonymy is a figure of speech, a language device, not a literary work.