English

Simmons

27 August, 08:11

Richle had felt a mad, exhilarating kind of energy growing in the room, He thought he recognized the feeling from his

childhood, when he felt it every day and had come to take it merely as a matter of course. He supposed that, if he had

ever thought about that deep-running aquifer of energy as a kid (he could not recall that he ever had), he would have

simply dismissed it as a fact of life, something that would always be there, like the color of his eyes ...

Well, that hadn't turned out to be true. The energy you drew on so extravagantly when you were a kid, the energy you

thought would never exhaust itself that slipped away somewhere between eighteen and twenty-four, to be replaced by

something much duller purpose, maybe, or goals

Source: King, Stephen It. New York: Penguin, 1987. Print

Which word describes the tone in this excerpt best?

A. optimistic

B. nostalgic

C. ironic

D. romantic