re: Michael Wilbon Compares Jerry Jones to Slave Owner

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they're lighting themselves on fire?

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figure of speech
n. pl. figures of speech
An expression that uses language in a nonliteral way, such as a metaphor or synecdoche, or in a structured or unusual way, such as anaphora or chiasmus, or that employs sounds, such as alliteration or assonance, to achieve a rhetorical effect.