Gloomy
The author's tone is is gloomy as it is discussing death.
A simile is something which compares two things which are generally not related, which is why your answer is the second one, "She's gone from sounding like the smoke detector" as the writer is suggesting the girl sounded like a smoke detector making this the simile.
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The teacher tells him that his back caught on fire and that the jacket he was wearing, which Dally lent him, saved his life. He says that Dally was burned but will probably be fine. Johnny, however, is in very bad shape—he was struck by a piece of burning timber as it fell, and may have broken his back.
Similarities are between Gilgamesh’s quest for everlasting life in Dilmun and Adam and eve’s fall in the garden of Eden is that the serpent/snake that shows up in both and "steals" eternal life; both have the same result: humans must die.
In his quest for immortality, Gilgamesh walked paths no one had walked before, walking alongside the sun and across the Waters of Death. His quest was personal, but his motivations were similar to those that shaped modern medicine: the quest to prolong life and conquer death.
Hence, the correct answer is serpent/snake that shows up in both and "steals" eternal life
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Indirect evidence: evidence that establishes immediately collateral facts from which the main fact may be inferred
direct evidence: evidence that directly proves a fact without an inference or presumption, and which in itself, if true, conclusively establishes that fact
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