APFIVE Describe how Latin particles (such as adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions) function in context and contribute to the meaning of the text.
What literary effect do the repeated adverbs ‘iam…iam’ create in conjunction with the spatial progression ‘in limine…intra limen’?
Tum crebrescere fragor, adventare et iam ut in limine, iam ut intra limen audiri. Respicit, videt agnoscitque narratam sibi effigiem.
They show the increasing frequency of the supernatural manifestations
They emphasize the contrast between expectation and reality
They create urgent immediacy while marking the ghost’s progression across the threshold into Athenodorus’s space
They indicate the alternating nature of the sounds the philosopher hears
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