Figurative Language In Stephen Curry's Poem 'Famous'

When you look on your phone, and you see a famous person, are you like me and say, “I want to be famous like them some day”. Well one day when I was younger I wanted to be exactly like a basketball player. I wanted to be like Michael Jordan. But now something changed I want to be exactly like Stephen Curry. Why? I want to because one I'm not going to be tall enough to be like Mike. Secondly I can shoot the ball pretty well for a seventh grader. Stephen Curry made 402 three pointers in 79 games that's almost 5.1 threes in one game some players don't even make one in a game but yet to average 5 in a game that's really good. The thing is you don't have to be well known by people to be famous for something else. Like in the poem "Famous" by Shihab Naomi, it states that "a river is famous to a fish" the meaning of famous in this poem is well known. Isn't the river well known to the fish? Isn't a
That isn't really figurative because that is saying exactly what it means. Figurative language is something that doesn't mean what it says. The phrase above means exactly what it says. In “Fame is a fickle food” the closest thing to figurative language is rhyming and that isn't figurative language. These poems are a great example of how you don't have to have figurative language for it to be a poem.

Lastly, they are different because in “ Fame is a fickle food ” there is variety of rhyming not every line but every few lines there is a rhyme for example “whose table table once a guest what not the second time is set”, that's a true rhyme. In the poem “Famous there is no rhyming. The beginning of each line begins almost the same. The blank is famous to the blank. For example “The river is famous to the fish”. There is no rhyming in “Famous” which means they are