Titles

What title hast thou, traitor, to the crown? (Henry VI, Part 3 1.1.104)

A few ideas for writing a good title

• Write a phrase from your draft that could serve as a title.
• Write a phrase from the original text that could serve as a title
• Write a title that is a question beginning with What, Who, When or Where.
• Write a title that is a question beginning with How or Why.
• Write a title that is a statement beginning with How or Why.
• Write a title that is a question beginning with Is/Are, Do/Does, or Will.
• Pick out of the essay or the original text some concrete image – something the reader can hear, see, taste, smell, or feel – to use as a title.
• Write a title that begins with an – ing verb (such as “Creating a Good Title”).
• Write a one-word title – the most obvious one possible.
• Write a two-word title.
• Write a three-word title.
• Write a four-word title.
• Write a five-word title.
• Find two titles you’ve written so far that you might use together in a double title.   Join them together with a colon.