Which sensory detail does this passage show? "his ears were insulated by tufts of graying hair that seemed to block out the unpleasant traffic of life."

A sensory details  is use by the writer to connects the reader's five senses (sight, sound, smell, taste and touch) to an image or a description. The writer gives an image of ears with gray hair. From that image, the writer show us an estimated age of the character he's referring.

d) sarah's natural reaction to being accepted into college suggests that she has no other dreams.

gilgamesh is a hero by birth as the epic explains it. in the epic the birth is explained in the way which tells us that gilgamesh’s creation was made perfect by the contribution of various god and that signifies the goal in his life, which was to become a hero and save mankind. an example from the text says. "the glorious sun shamash bestowed upon him glory; adad the terrible god of storms bestowed upon him courage. the great gods perfected his magnificence beyond all others, terrible like the great wild bull. two thirds god they made him; one third man they made him." a man born with superhuman qualities and partly god is destined to be a hero.

the heroic deeds carried by him later in his life also prove the heroic character of gilgamesh. for example hi battle with the ultimate beast humbaba is a proof of his bravery and characteristic heroism. gilgamesh was warned about the beast as the text says about humbaba “whose roar is a flood, whose mouth is fire, whose breath is death". but with the superhuman strength gilgamesh did the job