"'But I give you one warning: as soon as I see his body I swear to you by the bones of my father and mother, by the memory of Jose Arcadio Buendia, I swear to you before God that I will drag you out from wherever you're hiding and kill you with my own two hands.' Before leaving the room, without waiting for any reply, she concluded: 'It's the same as if you'd been born with the tail of a pig'"
The repetition in this phrase emphasizes the harsh diction that the author is displaying here. The repetition of soft sounds is juxtaposing the harsh words being said, a syntactical device used by the author used to show the anger the mother is feeling towards her son. The last sentence also is a flashback to the earlier parts of the book, where his parents feared he would be born with a tail because he is an inbred child. This shows that all Ursula's worst fears about her son were childish compared to how he really turned out now.
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