Repetition

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

In The Death of Ivan Ilyich

It is not the appendix, it is not the kidney; the case is life and... death. Yes, life existed, and here it is going away, going away, and I cannot stop it.

"Going away, going away" and "it is not the appendix, it is not the kidney" repeat their words like someone stumbling. The insistence imitates the thought that circles around what he cannot yet say.

Chapters IV to VII: The Illness and the Lie, Ivan Ilyich

The chief torment of Ivan Ilyich was the lie, that lie somehow accepted by everyone, that he was merely ill, and not dying.

Chapters IV to VII: The Illness and the Lie, the narrator

He wanted someone to pity him as if he were a sick child. He wanted to be caressed and kissed and wept over, as one caresses and comforts children.

Chapters IV to VII: The Illness and the Lie, the narrator

He wept for his helplessness, for his terrible loneliness, for the cruelty of people, for the cruelty of God, for the absence of God.

Chapters VIII to XII: Death, the narrator

and what if, in fact, my whole life, my conscious life, was not "that"?

Chapters VIII to XII: Death, Ivan Ilyich