Dante's Divine Comedy

[navoda]

I am taking a western literature course and there's a question that I can't seem to figure out the answer for. "Which part of Dante's Divine Comedy was a complete innovation?" is the question. I just can't figure out what the question means.

[Lykren]

I have no idea what that means either. It's a pretty vague question.

[Vota]

That is a vague question, unless its a trick question.

It seems to me that The Divine Comedy itself is an innovation within the realm of literature.

[Poetaster]

Does it mean the Terza Rima form Dante invented and used in his Commedia?

Terza Rima is basically three lines where the first and third are the same, the 'main' rhyme, and the second line has the 'main' rhyme of the next stanza. So it would be a rhyme scheme of:

A
B
A

B
C
B

C
D
C

And so on.

[navoda]

Does it mean the Terza Rima form Dante invented and used in his Commedia?

Terza Rima is basically three lines where the first and third are the same, the 'main' rhyme, and the second line has the 'main' rhyme of the next stanza. So it would be a rhyme scheme of:

A
B
A

B
C
B

C
D
C

And so on.

I feel like this could be a potential answer because we did discuss this in class. Thank you for this by the way. I would love to hear others' perspective also. We just didn't label anything as a "complete innovation" as we discussed Dante. At least not that I can think of.