What metaphors are used in Ella Minnow Pea: A Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable by Mark Dunn?

Example of Metaphor:

"The tide which washes the shores of the beleaguered island can be depended upon to follow the moon's directives from now until the death of the planet, but lovely storm tides - beautiful hurricane-force, beach-battering, dune grass-deracinating gales do strike our beaches now and then and leave change in their wake