Roopa Banerjee Although in the iconic movie Sound of Music, Hollywood star Julie Andrews crooned... Continue reading
Roopa Banerjee When you are told that your friend is a tree hugger, you know... Continue reading
Roopa Banerjee “I wish I had more time to spend with my family.” When we... Continue reading
Roopa Banerjee When we watch a realistic film, we laud it as a ‘slice of... Continue reading
It’s usually the turning point in a story when the protagonist moves from ignorance to... Continue reading
Literature abounds with examples of antiphrasis that enables writers to convey irony, writes Roopa Banerjee... Continue reading
A sudden reversal of fortune in a fictional story is known as peripeteia, writes Roopa... Continue reading
A hypallage is a figure of speech in which the syntactic relationship between two words... Continue reading
Anton Chekhov, a Russian playwright and short story-writer, believed that writers should not introduce details... Continue reading
Euphemism is the substitution of an agreeable and inoffensive phrase for one that may offend... Continue reading
