This is an example of captions being used to present thoughts of the main character Riley.

Example of caption in book. You are the Captain of a sailing ship that is sailing around one of the oceans five major gyres. Your browser doesnt support HTML5 audio. Captions can be short or they can contain longer material descriptions or even a mini-story.

Above left Bartholomew. To provide a short piece of text under a picture in a book magazine or newspaper that describes the picture or explains what the people in it are doing or. For example its always interesting to remind the context in which the action of your story occurs location time of the year etc.

The caption should lead the reader into the article. In this example from the New-York Times we view a specific action but the journalist added some important context in the photo caption. The caption system used on foreign language films is called subtitles.

Above right Peabody. Together the photo and its caption say a lot more. The political cartoon had the caption Well theres your problem The political cartoon had the caption Well theres.

Be specific but not overly so. An example of a caption are the words at the bottom of a television or movie screen to translate the dialogue into another language or to provide the dialogue to the hard of hearing. For example if a person looks at a painting of a field then the person may just see a field and think about whatever associations this evokes in his memory.

If the product caption is a description rather than an official product name capitalize only the first word and proper names. The caption said Big eyes to see underwater The question that the students had to answer was Why does a penguin have big eyes They had to look at the caption in order to answer that text dependent question. John Smith for example or Deluxe Dual-Purpose Widget without terminal punctuation.