Consecutive sentences or verses with the same construction, so that the reader compares what changes from one to the next.
In The Brothers Karamazov
in the realist, faith does not arise from the miracle, but the miracle from faith.
The same structure serves both halves: faith does not arise from the miracle, the miracle arises from faith. The symmetry with the terms reversed fixes the idea in memory and shows that the usual order of causes has been turned over.
Book I: The history of a family, the narrator, about Alyosha
if the grain of wheat, falling into the earth, does not die, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
Book VI: A Russian monk, Elder Zosima to Alyosha, on the last afternoon
I punish myself for my whole life, I punish my whole life!
Book VIII: Mitya, Mitya, in the note he writes at Perkhotin's
There is no law for God! Wherever God places himself, there is God's place! Wherever I place myself, there at once will be the first place... "everything is permitted", and that's it!
Book XI: Ivan Fyodorovich, the devil to Ivan, on the night of Smerdyakov's confession
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