Parallelism

Sentences or verses in sequence with the same construction, so that the reader compares what changes from one to the next.

In White Nights

Well, for no one, for an ideal, for her who appears in a dream. I create whole novels in my reveries.

“For no one, for an ideal, for her who appears in a dream” repeats the same construction three times. The series moves from nothing to dream and shows that, for him, these three objects of love are worth the same.

First Night: The encounter, the Dreamer

I said I could not live with my grandmother, that I would run away from her, that I did not want to be pinned with a pin, and that, if he wanted, I would go with him to Moscow, because I could not live without him. Shame, love, pride, everything spoke in me at the same time

Second Night: The Dreamer and Nastenka's Story, Nastenka

Yesterday was our third meeting, our third white night...

Third and Fourth Nights and the Morning: The wait and the outcome, the Dreamer