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Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.
—Peter Singer
figure of speech
A verbal expression in which words or sounds are arranged in a particular way to achieve a particular effect. Figures of speech are organized into different categories, such as alliteration, assonance, metaphor, metonymy, onomatopoeia, simile, and synecdoche.