How did the girls forget their promise to be couth and kempt

Which rhetorical device is used in this excerpt from "the danger of lying in bed" by mark twain? "if i am going to travel by rail i shan't need it. lying at home in bed is the thing i am afraid of."

Give two details about the social and economic climate of the 1930s. were these details noted in to kill a mockingbird

In a short story the narrator's word choice