Why do you need to study figure of speech?
It is good to study figures of speech so that you can recognize them in conversation later in life. People use them a lot, and since figures of speech aren't literal, straight interpretations of the words used, it is easy to get confused.

If you didn't know some figures of speech, certain conversations could fly right over your head. ;)

Here is a wikipedia article on the subject with some excellent material: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_of_speech

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