Does anyone know if there's a term that describes the device of titling chapters in a work of fiction? That is, chapters not simply called "Chapter 1", "Chapter 2", etc., but chapters with unique names that describe their contents, such as the chapter called "The Potions Master" in the first Harry Potter book.
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It is called toilet literature.
- Urbandictionary has an entry for this term:
newspapers, national geographic any magazine is good for toilet literature
A: Man it's part of the ritual u gotta read some shit u don't care about to take a good shit
B: Word.
Goodreads lists some books under toilet literature genre.
There is an article titled "Is the iPhone threatening to kill off toilet literature?"
The National Geographic makes for excellent toilet literature. It does a great job of proving to anybody who might be visiting you that you’re the National Geographic reading type, and that you choose to improve your otherwise limited brain while hanging out on the throne.
For years now the National Geographic, alongside the likes of Time magazine and Art Review, has been bringing culture to time-spent-on-the-toilet worldwide. It brings some sophistication to going for a wee. And it’s come under threat in recent years due to the arrival of the iPhone.
Maisie Skidmore / itsnicethat.com
- An excerpt from the book "No Amish Need Apply" By Kurt Ringquist:
One staple of American toilet literature I have not touched upon, one that is familiar to any American who has browsed the Humor section of a bookstore, is, of course, the one, the only, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, in its many forms and variations.
- Toilet literature doodle:
Traits of the kind that you mention can be classed as demographic characteristics or demographic features.
According to the definitions supplied by Oxforddictionaries.com, demography has two denotations:
1 The study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease, which illustrate the changing structure of human populations.
1.1 The composition of a particular human population.
Best Answer
It is a chapter whether it is titled or numbered; there's no term exclusively for a chapter with a title. If you really need to distinguish between them, you might call them titled chapters.