Phrases or verses set out with the same construction, so that the reader compares what changes from one to the other.
In The Magic Mountain
what if you packed your bags tonight and took tomorrow's train to set off and get away from here? [...] I bow before reason [...] I also bow before courage.
Settembrini's two sentences repeat the same form: "I bow before reason" and "I also bow before courage." The identical construction makes the reader compare the two terms and see that he honors clear decision, not health or illness.
Chapter III: The First Full Day and the Arrival of Settembrini, Lodovico Settembrini
Time has no nature of its own, none at all. When it seems long to us, it is long, and when it seems short, it is short, but no one actually knows its true extent.
Chapter III: The First Full Day and the Arrival of Settembrini, Hans Castorp
Illness is absolutely not noble, nor worthy of reverence, in any way. [...] A soul without a body is as inhuman and horrifying as a body without a soul.
Chapter IV: The Sense of Time, Hippe and the Thermometer, Lodovico Settembrini
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