Paragraph Composition Ideas Needed.

For school, I got an assignment for the short story, "It Was The Strangest Thing." I have to write a paragraph composition for this question; "Use at least one example from the story which explains how the author uses the language to describe the ocean as if it was alive." I have no idea what to write, nothing comes to mind at all. I'm asking this because my teacher asked us to try it this http://www.openschool.bc.ca/courses/en12/intro_assn.pdf to get ready for English Mid-terms, and I got most of the questions down, however as said previously, nothing comes to mind when I'm at the Paragraph Composition part of it. I can't figure out how the author uses language that describes the ocean as though it is alive. Are there any tips in figuring this out if I had this type of question for a mid-term or test?