Check your instructor’s guidelines for titling your literary analysis paper. Your instructor may have provided specific guidelines that you should follow.
Wait until you have finished writing the literary analysis before you give it a title. You will have a better perspective on the topic after the paper is completed.
Draft a title that explains something about the key argument of your literary analysis. For example, rather than using a title like, “Hemingway’s Approach to Fiction,” state the specific work of fiction you’re writing about, such as the short story “Hills Like White Elephants,” and what you’re arguing about Hemingway’s approach to fiction, such as using subtext to make a broad point about society.
Put it together. Add together the pieces of your title to create something that is descriptive of your literary analysis and gives readers a general idea of what you’re argument is. The above example might have a title like “Hemingway’s Use of Subtext to Comment on Abortion and the Male Psyche in ‘Hills Like White Elephants.’”