Question

Read the excerpt below from the novel It by Stephen King and answer the question that follows. Richie 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? optimistic nostalgic ironic romantic

Answer 1

In the novel It by Stephen King, the word which describes the tone in this excerpt best is nostalgic.

Nostalgic refers to the sentiments or affections which are related to the past, specifically for a place or periods relating to a happy personal association.

In the above excerpt line which depicts nostalgic affection is

“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,”

Richie gets nostalgic when he enters the room and feel the energy that he used to as a kid.

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Answer 2

In the novel It by Stephen King, a word which describes the tone in this excerpt best is nostalgic.

Nostalgic refers to the sentiments or affections which are related to the past, specifically for a place or periods relating to a happy personal association.

In the above excerpt line which depicts nostalgic affection is

“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,”

Richie gets nostalgic when he enters the room and feel the energy that he used to as a kid.