People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
—Isaac Singer
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).