“Later, the pale cold sun was high in the sky”

• Personification

“He saw the snow melt around his wrists and into the top of his mittens, searing the flesh of his wrists like flame”

• Simile

“But the rivers, levelled with ice and snow, were the winter highways of the mountains”

• Metaphor

“His skis had sunk a foot in the new snow, white and soft as flour”

• Simile

“That tree, like a strong and lonely woman, called to his weary body to stop”

• Simile