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Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is--whether its victim is human or animal--we cannot expect things to be much better in this world.
—Rachel Carson
assonance
The repetition or a pattern of similar sounds, especially vowel sounds: "Thou still unravished bride of quietness,/Thou foster child of silence and slow time" ("Ode to a Grecian Urn," John Keats).