Returning to the same word, phrase or construction, at the start of successive verses or sentences (anaphora) or throughout the text, to give rhythm, emphasis or insistence.
In The Magic Mountain
referred, in a word, to her body, a languid and exalted body, accentuated excessively by the illness and transformed by the illness, once more, into body.
The sentence insists on the same words: the body is "accentuated excessively by the illness" and "transformed by the illness, once more, into body." The return of "body" and "illness" makes desire turn in a circle, from the ill body back to body.
Chapter V: Humaniora, the Analysis and Walpurgis Night, the narrator
Seeing disquieting, pernicious things, and knowing what he saw before him: it was life without time, life without cares or hopes, life as abjection that moves as it stagnates, dead life.
Chapter VII: Peeperkorn, the Great Boredom and the Thunder, the narrator
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