Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining have been of great interest to the researchers during recent years. It is the process of classifying the opinions or sentiments according to the polarity of the text into positive, neutral and negative. Most of the organizations and industries highly depend on data analytics for their planning and decisionmaking process. Opinion mining and sentiment analysis have great importance in our day-to-day decision making from purchasing products and services to making investments. In this survey, we briefly incorporated the approaches and techniques proposed by researchers in recent investigations along with the issue related to sentiment analysis and opinion mining.