Read the excerpt from an essay about summer employment. a young person’s first job is often his first encounter with reality—a crash course on how the world operates. i harken back to my time behind the counter at a hectic pool snack bar. hungry patrons barked orders faster than i could operate the mini toaster oven, and items i pulled from the freezer seemed to melt before they reached little kids’ outstretched hands. despite the mayhem, my coworkers and i relished the camaraderie of our workplace as we labored to fill orders, stock sodas, and survive until payday. how does the author's word choice affect the tone of the excerpt? the words barked and labored impart a critical tone. the words harken and relished impart a nostalgic tone. the words hectic and mayhem impart a lively tone. the words hungry and survive impart a desperate tone. the answer is b.) the words harken and relished impart a nostalgic tone.

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B) The words harken and relished impart a nostalgic tone.

Explanation: the tone of a story, text or paragraph is the author's or speaker's attitude towards the audience, the subject or even the characters of the text. There are many different kinds of tones (for example: positive, negative, happy, sad, angry, etc). In the given excerpt from an essay about summer employment the word choices (like "harken" and "relished") help the author to express a nostalgic tone about his first job.

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it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.