Haunted House-Extract 3 (5-9)

Question 1

what sound vocabulary does Pliny use in Extract 3 (lines 5-9)?

Answer 1

-silentium = silence
-concutti ferrum = rattle of iron
-vinvula moveri = chains are shaken

Question 2

what is Athenodorous’ first course of action when he hears the ghost in Extract 3 (lines 5-9)?

Answer 2

-does not lift his eyes: ‘ille non tollere oculos’,
-does not put down his pen: ‘non remittere stilum’
-he focuses his mind: ‘sed offirmare animum’,
-shuts his ears: ‘auribusque praetendere’

Question 3

how does Pliny build tension in Extract 3 (lines 5-9)?

Answer 3

-‘tum crebescere fragor’: then the clanking grows louder, and ‘adventare’: comes nearer.
Pliny finally reveals what it was:
-‘respicit, videt agnoscitque’: Athenodorous looks back and sees and recognises, this is in the historic present tense to make the reader feel like they are in the story