Parallelism

Sentences or verses in a row with the same construction, so that the reader compares what changes from one to the next.

In Demons

He does not exist, but he exists. There is no pain in the stone, but in the fear of the stone there is pain. God is the pain of the fear of death. Whoever overcomes pain and fear, that very one will become god.

"There is no pain in the stone, but in the fear of the stone there is pain" repeats almost the whole sentence, changing only the place of the pain. The parallelism makes the reasoning move in short, almost mathematical steps.

Part One: Threads Come Together, Kirillov

Think that you are a girl, and I, even if I am your most devoted friend, am nevertheless for you a stranger: I am not a husband, nor a father, nor a fiancé.

Part One: The Slap, Stavrogin, to Marya Timofeyevna

I thought at that moment: which of us is lower? He, who embraces me to humiliate me at once, or I, who despise him, and his face, and at once kiss him, though I could have turned my face away... ugh!

Part Two: The Town in Disorder, Stepan Trofimovich

Without the English humanity can still live, without Germany it can, without the Russian man it is more than possible, without science it can, without bread it can, only without beauty is it impossible, for there would be absolutely nothing to do in the world.

Part Three: The Party and the Fire, Stepan Trofimovich