1. I couldn't get to work until I tidied my desk.
2. Jennifer always remembers her mother's birthday.
3. The winning care in the race was driven by an Italian.
4. The postman arrived while we were eating breakfast.
5. I was still checking my test when the examiner told me to stop.
6. Allan was very tired that night because he studied hard all day.
7. The boys would play football after school.
8. This is the house where I used to live when I was a boy.
It's 'in those days'.. specifying those days as in the past.
Therefore would be the correct answer to your question...
The rhetorical device that <span>is used in this excerpt from Mark Twain's "The Danger of Lying in Bed" is anecdote (assuming that your options are allusion, rhetorical question, anecdote, and logic).
There is no allusion to any other text here, so that is not the correct answer. There are also no rhetorical questions - questions that don't need an answer because it is implied. I guess there is logic, but it is not a rhetorical device really. So, I'd choose anecdote, because an anecdote is a short, interesting story from someone's life, as is the case here.</span>
