A simple way to name a work is to put basic information about it in the title. The information can be the work's genre, target audience, medium, author, length, or just an affirmation that the work tells a story/tale/saga/whatever. While it's sometimes used to signal that a work is Meta Fiction and/or to make the title of a parody sound bland and uninspired, it's also a nice way to let the audience know what they can expect from the work. Unless you're a Trolling Creator who's trying to mislead the audience, of course. Adaptations in a different medium can also render such a title inaccurate.

Alternatively, the information in a work title belongs to a different work — usually a plot-important Show Within a Show, but it could also be a random song that's forgotten immediately after it's played once in Episode 2. Sometimes, nothing resembling the work described in the title appears at all, which may lead to fans speculating about what the title is supposed to refer to, and whether it's supposed to be interpreted literally or metaphorically. In this case, the title may fall under Never Trust a Title, but it still fits this trope.

Both types are common in fantasy, as a fantasy title may contain words like "Song" or "Tale". Heavy Meta songs often have the discussed genre in their titles. Also fairly common for Simulation Games, which may have "Simulator" or just "Sim" in the title. A Greatest Hits Album may have "Greatest Hits" or something similar in its title.

Very common with Light Novels, which often have extremely long titles that serve to summarize the plot or at least the premise. This trend partly started because a lot of them began life as Web Serial Novels on the hosting website Shousetsuka ni Narou, and in order to get the reader's attention and draw in the crowd it's written for among thousands of other works, the title has to double as a blurb.

Reference works like dictionaries tend to have really straight-forward titles like "Fast Eddie's Dictionary" because such works don't need to use creative titles to catch the attention of buyers — if you're looking for a dictionary, a book with "Dictionary" in the title is a natural choice, and if you're not in need of one, a cool title won't convince you to buy one anyway. Similarly, wikis almost always have "Wiki" in their names. Such examples are pretty uninteresting, so please don't fill the Literature and Web Original sections with them.

Sub-Tropes:

• Annual Title: When the title has the work's year of release.
• Ballad of X (while the works are not necessarily actual ballads, they fall under this trope either way)
• The Case of...
• The Eponymous Show
• In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It
• The Legend of X
• Running Time in the Title
• The Something Song
• Something Blues
• Super Title 64 Advance
• The Talk Show with Host Name
• The Title Saga
• Title: The Adaptation
• Versus Title

Compare Brand X, A Dog Named "Dog" and [Trope Name]. Can overlap with Shaped Like Itself and in extreme cases Captain Obvious.

Note: If a title contains a word that can refer to both a genre and something else, please make sure it's actually referring to the genre. A movie titled "Romantic Comedy" or "Love Movie" is an example. A movie titled "Romance of Alice and Bob" probably isn't.

Examples where the title describes the work itself (or the original work if it's an adaptation):

Examples where the title describes something else than the work itself: