No 4(i) The use of flashback technique: Flashback is employed to supply the reader with information about what had happened into past yaremi's courtship with ajumobi is known to the reader through the writer's employment of flashback .also yaremi's reminiscences are helpful in filling the gaps that exist in knowledge about ajumobi who died nine months before the narrations of the story began.other information about yaremi's childhood and business are provided through a flashback to those experiences.

No 4ii The use of suspense: Suspence is introduced to create an air of expectancy and curiosity in the reader desperately seeks to know if woye would be well again .the cap-picking ceremony is also another suspense -filled episode in the novel. The reader is very interested in knowing whose cap yarem would pick, the reader shares the villagers surprise when yaremi walks to the bench,stares at the caps, bow to the elders and walks away from the arena.

No4(iii) Point of view: Bayo adebawole employs the third person omniscient point of view, whereby the narration is done not by any of the character in the Novel but by an outsiders, who sees all and knows all. The narrator knows even the thoughts and plans of the characters. Thus , the presentation of the events are as perceived by a narrator who is not hindered by lack of sufficient information, but one who knows everything happening to the characters. The reader s learns about the characters and their experienced from what the narrator says and what the characters says in dialogues, which are introduced to enliven the narrative. (No2cont)sodom and Gomorrah is where people line up waiting turns at the public toilet.The public toilet itself is one despeakable place.The hip of faeces there could make one vomit their intestine.Poison and Macho reign supreme here.They beat.,rob and debrive the kids of their belongings.It was the life at Sodom and Gomorrah that influenced poison and Macho, making them the rapist robbers and smoker's that they are.it was Sodom and Gomorrah that condemned baby T, odarky and fofo.significantly,sodom and Gomorrah stands for the dwelling place of the poor in our society. The poor lack good accommodation in most of our townships. (No7)In Horace Walpole's The castle of otranto,there are many significant things.One is the death of Conrad.Conrad is the sick and only son of Manfred,the prince of Otranto.Though still very young ,Manfred wanted him to marry Isabella the princess.This marriage is meant to ensure that the throne does not move away from the Manfred family.

4(iv) The use of myths and folk tales: Myths and folk tales are employed to enrich the story. the narrator tells of the myths and folk tales that are told in the village about the moon . there are also reference to the stories of the tortoise who visit his in-laws house and messed himself up with a mess of hot-pottage in the sitting room right in front of his wife, yamibo, the proud antelope who lived like a Prince and who was eventually subdued by the hunter's bullet