I share your inability to find metaphors in this excellent
short story. My suggestion, however, is that if you are focussing on figurative language
in your work, consider the use of similes in this story. Whilst there appear to be no
metaphors, there is an abundance of similes, and let us remember that the only
difference between metaphors and similes is the absence of the "like" or "as" in the
metaphors. Both take one object and compare one aspect of it to another object that we
would not normally associate with the first object, forcing us to see the
comparison.
Consider some of the following examples of
similes in the text. The sledge that bears the princess to her new home is "shaped like
a great golden swan," she herself is "as pale as the Snow Palace" where she lived and
the people say she is "as white as a rose." Likewise we are told that the prince's hair
was "like fine gold." These are just a few examples from the first two paragraphs, but
there are many other similes, so hopefully you will be able to identify a few more from
the text for your work. Good luck!
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