I don't think the GP is asking about quoting, but about the slightly altered repetition. "This is prison." "This is America." The best I can do for giving a na

I don't think the GP is asking about quoting, but about the slightly altered repetition. "This is prison." "This is America." The best I can do for giving a name to it is [literary parallelism][0]. There may be a more specific poetic term, but I don't know it and couldn't come up with it. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallelism_(rhetoric) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallelism_(rhetoric)