Repetition

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

In Quincas Borba

everything, from his slippers to the sky, everything enters the same sensation of ownership

The double "everything" hammers home the idea of totality and makes the list grow from the slippers to the sky, as if nothing were left out of what Rubião considers his.

Chapters I to XII: Humanitas and the Philosopher's Death, the narrator

The greatest sin, after the sin, is the publication of the sin

Chapters XXIX to XL: Strawberries, Moonlight, and Rubião's Declaration, Carlos Maria

Lucullus always dined with Lucullus

Chapters CXLVIII to CLIX: The Delirium in Sofia's Coupé, the narrator