Phrases or verses following the same construction, so that the reader compares what changes from one to the other.
In The Slum
Botelho queria vinte contos de réis, e com papel passado a prazo de casamento; o outro oferecia dez, Botelho wanted twenty contos de réis, and with the paperwork drawn up as a marriage settlement; the other offered ten
The two halves of the sentence repeat the same form, "wanted twenty" and "offered ten", and the reader measures the distance between the price asked and the price offered, as in a bargain at the counter.
Chapters XII to XIV: Marriage, the Rival Tenement, and the Plan of Revenge, the narrator
entregá-la ao seu senhor, restituí-la legalmente à escravidão, to hand her over to her master, to restore her legally to slavery
Chapters XXI to XXIII: Bertoleza's End and Romão's Rise, the narrator
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