He realizes that his heart is of gold and should move on with his life
As you know, water evaporates in heat, and tropical places are usually very hot! Tropical implies "ocean" so, when an ocean evaporates it leaves a sandy ocean floor, which is a desert, but there are lake sized "puddles" of salt water left over, which is why there is a big salt water lake in the middle of Utah.
The correct answer should be C. The smell of bacon and eggs was my alarm clock on cold mornings.
To help you in the future, just remember that figurative language is essentially just a statement that isn't literal. In A and B, both of those things actually happened. However, for C, bacon and eggs didn't start ringing an alarm to wake them up.
I think it's "Pictures display information when written instructions are more complicated". Personally I believe it's just a majorly confusing way of saying: when the written instructions are too complicated they use pictures as well.