Book Titles Play On Words

My mom dad sister and i would each take turns going around the car naming book titles but the last letter of the title had to be the first letter for the next person.

Book titles play on words. Seven techniques and definitions for creating a play on words. Word play or wordplay also. These titles tend to work best with really strong cover art.

If you re writing in a commercial book genre be sure you have a good understanding of how titles within that particular genre work. Don t it make my brown eyes blue crystal gayle the different types of titles are as vast as the number of songs that have been written through the years. Many of these are pretty lame so if you have any improvements send them along.

A malaprop is the unintentional misstatement or misuse of a word or phrase or the accidental substitution of an incorrect word for the correct one with humorous results. Play on words is a literary technique and a form of wit in which words used become the main subject of the work primarily for the purpose of intended effect or amusement examples of word play include puns phonetic mix ups such as spoonerisms obscure words and meanings clever rhetorical excursions oddly formed sentences double entendres and telling character. Fox in socks would then queue sneetches.

My book s title is a play on words with my name. Please send suggestions to the above address. Here are a few one word titles.

Those given to me may be altered to some degree to imho improve them but all submissions will be duly credited. And we wouldn t recommend straying. All votes add books to this list.

A double entendre is the use of an ambiguous word or phrase that allows for a second usually racy interpretation. Catch 22 by pink based on joseph heller s book of the same title play of words. Titles and book genre.