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Literary device

Repetition

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

In Don Quixote

but I cannot see that, because one is loved, the person loved for being beautiful is obliged to love the one who loves him.

"Loved," "to love," and "loves" return in the same sentence, and the insistence on the root holds the reader to Marcela's question: whether being the object of someone's love creates a debt or not.

Part One: Marcela and the Inn, Marcela, in her defense before the shepherds, at Grisóstomo's burial

he saw, the history says, the very face, the same figure, the same aspect, the same physiognomy, the same effigy, the very likeness of the bachelor Sansón Carrasco.
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Part Two: Mirrors, Lions, and Camacho, the narrator, when Don Quixote unlaces the helmet of the Knight of the Mirrors

if the knights, the magnificent, the generous, the high-born, held me a fool, I would take it as an irreparable insult; but if students who never entered or trod the paths of chivalry think me a dunce, I do not care a farthing: I am a knight, and a knight I shall die, if it pleases the Most High.
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Part Two: The Duke and Duchess and Clavileño, Don Quixote, at the dukes' table, to the churchman who scorned him

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