Today's OneWord: Symbolic
The speech was meant to be symbolic, but everyone took it literally. The real carnage started as soon as he said the word "carnage," which he claimed was a metaphor. But the metaphor had grown arms and legs, and it wielded a sharp ax and a butcher's cleaver and split the skulls of the rallygoers open like rotten fruit. Their innards spilled out, but only in a trickle - there wasn't much brain to begin with.