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. Landmann 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”
The Perks of Being a
Wallflower

8. Literary Devices in Titles
Titles can be catchy when literary devices are used:
Alliteration
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Irony
pun

9. Alliteration
The Great Gatsby The Time Traveller’s Wife

10. More alliteration
Anne of Green Gables

11. Simile
Hills Like White Elephants

12. Metaphor
Life is a Highway
Love is a Battlefield

13. Personification
The Giving Tree The Tell-Tale Heart

14. Personification, cont’d.
A Wrinkle in Time

15. Irony
Mikey’s Father, the Champion

16. Pun
The Most Dangerous
Game
(“Game” is prey, or
the hunted)