1. How you can make a splash with your title!
Titles
How you can make a splash with your title!

2. Purpose of the title:
A title should give at least a hint of the contents of the piece of writing
It should be short and provocative
You want to generate your reader’s curiosity

3. What makes a good title?

5. Informative Titles
Informative titles tell exactly and concretely the contents of the piece of writing
Example: “How Dr. Landman Taught Me to Listen”
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6. Suggestive Titles
Suggestive titles become clear as the reader uses a little imagination
Example: “Listening at Last”

7. Intriguing Titles
Intriguing titles neither tell nor suggest, but later become clear
Example: “Teeth and Ears”

8. Literary Devices in Titles
Titles can be catchy when alliteration, simile, metaphor, personification, irony or pun are used
Examples:
The Time Traveler’s Wife
Like Water for Chocolate
The Giving Tree