Returning to the same word, phrase, or construction, at the start of verses or successive sentences (anaphora) or throughout the text, to give rhythm, emphasis, or insistence.
In Dom Casmurro
His name was Ezequiel de Sousa Escobar. He was a slender young man, with light eyes, a little evasive, like his hands, like his feet, like his speech, like everything.
"Like his hands, like his feet, like his speech, like everything" repeats the same construction four times and extends the restlessness of the eyes to each part of the body, until it becomes the trait that defines the young man.
Chapters LIV to LXV: The Seminary, Escobar, and the Iago Thread, the narrator
Your mother made a promise to God to give Him a priest, didn't she? Well then, give Him a priest who is not you. She can very well take in some orphaned lad and have him ordained at her expense, and there you have a priest at the altar, without you...
Chapters XCIII to C: The Substitute and the Bachelor, Escobar
No, no, I am not your father!
Chapters CXXXVI to CXLVIII: The Cup, the Separation, and the Rest, Bentinho
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