24 Nov Fun with words Read more The irony of it Roopa Banerjee If you suggest something silly to your friend and she says, ‘What a... Continue reading
19 Oct Fun with words Read more Talk sense with synesthesia The presenting of ideas, characters, or places in a manner in which it appeals to... Continue reading
21 Sep Fun with words Read more Let’s wave to the Antanaclasis wave Antanaclasis is a figure of speech wherein the same word is used in two contrasting... Continue reading
26 Aug Fun with words Read more When Anaphora comes to the rescue over and over again Anaphora is a literary device wherein a word or group of words is repeated at... Continue reading
21 Jul Fun with words Read more Say it again with Anadiplos Repetition of the last word of the preceding sentence as the first of the next... Continue reading
25 Jun Full of beans with colloquialism Colloquialism is the use of informal words or phrases in writing or speech – Roopa... Continue reading
12 Mar To avoid slips of tongue, just sleak spowly Slips-of-tongue are speech errors in which words are pronounced incorrectly or uttered unintentionally – Roopa Banerjee... Continue reading
11 Feb Feather in pun’s cap English playwright Samuel Johnson referred to punning as the lowest form of humour, but Alfred... Continue reading
10 Jan Fun with words Read more Name it with METONYMY In the UK media, the British monarch is popularly referred to as The Crown. This... Continue reading
13 Dec Leading up the garden path with RED HERRINGS Red herrings are most commonly used in mystery fiction by writers to lead readers down... Continue reading