What type of figurative language is used to describe the sea?

There was a simile to describe the sea which was , "There was no breeze. The sea was as flat as a plate-glass window. We were drawing near the island then. What I felt was a--a mental chill; a sort of sudden dread." 

Select the word from the list that best fits the definitionstates the the universe is expanding

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