The tone that best describes the writing style used on this excerpt is enlightened, because he uses rhetorical figures to describe feeling. For example, saying that hunger is in their eyes is a metaphor that express feeling as nobody can feel hunger on their eyes but on their stomach.
What are the options? I can make a guess by denotation means the literal or primary meaning of a word. Floundered in the context of this sentence means to struggle mentally, or show great confusion.
C. Not sure where juxtaposition is, but C is the only thing which the passage argues for or suggests.
Answer:
people not wanting to work because they want to live off of other people's money and that's not right
A. How did natural gas effect ozone layer in 1975?