Our food system takes abundant grain, which people can't afford, and shrinks it into meat, which better-off people will pay for.
—Frances Moore Lappe
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.