Read the excerpt from "To Live." learning how to live without a textbook without a teacher to correct grammar to live to learn myself to live to know myself to live to be somebody who's learned how to live The speaker most likely repeats the phrase "to live" to show

This excerpt uses a literary device of repetition - rhetorical device-more specifically it uses Anaphora.

Anaphora is the use of the same words at the beginning of successive sentences.

It is mainly used to persuade and convince people besides having the capacity to generate all sort of feelings depending on the phrase that is being repeated.