Repetition

Returning to the same word, phrase or construction, at the start of successive verses or sentences (anaphora) or throughout the text, to give rhythm, emphasis or insistence.

In Crime and Punishment

Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when there is no longer anywhere to go?

The verb returns twice in the opening, “Do you understand, sir, do you understand”. The insistence demands that the listener grasp it and already shows the pleading tone of the speaker.

Part One: The Crime, Marmeladov

But the poor boy no longer remembers himself. Shouting, he forces his way through the crowd to the mare, embraces her dead, bloodied muzzle, and kisses it, kisses her on the eyes, on the lips...

Part One: The Crime, the narrator

the terrible word, like the bolt on the door that day, kept jumping on his lips: it was about to escape, he had only to let it go, he had only to utter it!

Part Two: The Inquiry, the narrator

The living soul will ask for life, the living soul will not submit to mechanics, the living soul is distrustful, the living soul is reactionary!

Part Three: The Theory, Razumikhin

It was not a person I killed, it was a principle! The principle, that I killed, but crossing over I did not cross, I stayed on this side... All I managed was to kill.

Part Three: The Theory, Raskolnikov

Together we are cursed, and together we shall go!

Part Four: The Siege, Raskolnikov

Have you ever seen a moth before a candle? Well, he will stay, he will stay all the time around me, circling as around a candle [...] and he'll keep tightening, tightening the circle, and zap! He flies straight into my mouth.

Part Four: The Siege, Porfiry

Freedom and power, and above all power! Over every trembling creature and over the whole anthill!.. That is the goal!

Part Four: The Siege, Raskolnikov

Who killed?... he repeated, as if he did not trust his own ears. Why, you killed, Rodion Romanych! You yourself killed...

Part Six: The Surrender, Porfiry

but here a new story already begins, the story of a man's gradual renewal, the story of his gradual rebirth, of his gradual passage from one world to another, of his acquaintance with a new reality, until now entirely unknown. That could form the subject of a new account, but our present account is over.

Epilogue: The Resurrection, the narrator