chapter titles
Labels for parts
Chapter titles are the names given to individual chapters in a book, appearing at the start of each section and often in the table of contents.
They may be descriptive Chapter 3: The Journey North, thematic Reckoning, or simply numbered.
Good chapter titles orient readers and sometimes entice them forward.
In academic or technical writing, they typically summarize content; in fiction, they may hint, tease, or misdirect.
- headingDirectional course traveled
- sectionDistinct divided part
- bookBound written work
- novelNew and unusual
- book seriesRelated novels published sequentially
verse · sneak peek · episode · installment · part · division · page · narrative · storyline · story arc · cliffhanger · opening · opening line · closing · prologue · epilogue · the end · contents
- book partspage, pages, cover, index, spine
- on-screen textcaptions, credits, closed captions, open captions, intertitles
- TarantinoPulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Reservoir Dogs, Django Unchained, Inglourious Basterds
- capitalizationuppercase, lowercase, capital letters, caps, sentence case
- film creditsopening credits, director, closing credits, producer, end credits
- storytelling techniquesflashback, voiceover, subplot, flash forward, twist