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Beowulf and The Divine Comedy are similar in that both works

are written in an early version of Italian

dramatized events from the lives of everyday people

influenced the development of the language in which they were written

are still widely read today in their original form

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Beowulf and The Divine Comedy are similar in that both works the development of the language in which they were written. Option C is correct.

The Divine Comedy was Italian and Beowulf was anglosaxon/old English eventually the English.

Beowulf is an Old English epic poem consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines.

The Divine Comedy is an Italian long narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320

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Beowulf and The Divine Comedy are similar in that both works:

influenced the development of the language in which they were written.

Beowulf was written in Old English while The Divine Comedy was written in Italian.

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