Returning to the same word, phrase or construction, at the start of verses or of consecutive sentences (anaphora) or throughout the text, to give rhythm, emphasis or insistence.
In The Brothers Karamazov
That is why I am a buffoon, a buffoon of shame, great elder, of shame. It is only out of touchiness that I make a scene.
The phrase "of shame" returns twice in the same sentence, like a hammer. The insistence makes the confession seem at once sincere and rehearsed, and it pins the cause of the scandal to a single feeling.
Book II: An untimely meeting, Fyodor Pavlovich to Elder Zosima, in the cell
Forgive! Forgive everyone!
Book II: An untimely meeting, Elder Zosima, after kneeling before Mitya
God and immortality. In God is also immortality.
Book III: The sensualists, Alyosha to his father, in the room, after Ivan says there is no God
each of us is, without doubt, guilty before everyone and for everything on earth, not only for the common guilt of the world, but each one, alone, for all men and for each man on this earth.
Book IV: The disturbances, Elder Zosima to the monks, at the parting
it is not God that I do not accept, understand me well, what I do not accept is the world created by Him, the world of God, and I cannot agree to accept it.
Book V: Pro and Contra, Ivan to Alyosha, in the tavern
Once there was a wicked, wicked woman, and she died. And not a single virtue remained of her. [...] she, he says, pulled an onion out of the vegetable garden and gave it to a beggar. [...] The moment she said it, the onion broke. And the woman fell into the lake and burns to this day. And the angel wept and went away.
Book VII: Alyosha, Grushenka to Alyosha, at her house
I am a pickpocket, I am a scoundrel, and I do not want to begin a new life as a scoundrel.
Book VIII: Mitya, Mitya, on the three thousand rubles he owes Katerina Ivanovna
Lord, receive me in all my iniquity, but do not judge me. Let me pass by without your judgment... Do not judge me, because I have condemned myself; do not judge me, because I love you, Lord!
Book VIII: Mitya, Mitya, in the troika on the way to Mokroye
I am not guilty! Of that blood I am not guilty! Of my father's blood I am not guilty... I wanted to kill, but I am not guilty! It was not I!
Book IX: The preparatory proceedings, Mitya, in Mokroye, on being accused
I do not want a good boy! I do not want another boy!
Book X: Ilyusha's death, Captain Snegiryov, in a low voice, after his son's request
For "the child" I will go. Because everyone is guilty before everyone. For everyone, "the child", because there are small children and big children. Everyone is "the child". I will go for everyone, because someone must go for everyone. I did not kill my father, but I must go. I accept!
Book XI: Ivan Fyodorovich, Mitya to Alyosha, in the jail, on the eve of the trial
it was not you who killed our father, it was not you!
Book XI: Ivan Fyodorovich, Alyosha to Ivan, in the street, under the lamppost
I love Russia, Alexei, I love the Russian God, even though I myself am a scoundrel!
Epilogue: Ilyusha's funeral, Mitya to Alyosha, in the hospital
without doubt we shall rise again, without doubt we shall see one another and tell one another, joyful and happy, everything that happened.
Epilogue: Ilyusha's funeral, Alyosha to Kolya, beside the stone
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