The sea is described as slimy because in the poem it says “Slimy things did crawl with legs upon the slimy sea”. This says that there was a chance that the was something slimy inside the sea that could look like their being followed.
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November 19, 2014 at 3:43 pm
To move onto the next stage – Discovery, you must identify an element of figurative language and explain how this helps develop your understanding of a character, event or idea.