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They say not to put quotations on a name because it makes it stand out and become distracting for the reader. I've read a book in which one of the characters was called the Master. If I were you I would put the m in master capitalized while leave the the lower case. No need to put the in capital letters hmmm? It's up to you though how to do it; I'm just giving you a suggestion.
Hope this helps : )
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I would also say the Master is the probably the best way although I always struggle with the same issue on when to captilise and when not to but I am poor with grammar so this doesn't help.
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Well it looks like here my insticts or better than my heart. One nice thing I'm glad I'm not the only one poor with grammar, sometimes I feel all alone in this field of wording, comma's and periods. Struggling to but them in order in a way to creatively make since of all that goes on in my mind.
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I'd agree with the capital for Master but lowercase for the rest. The capital alone should fulfil the function that you want to use the "" for.
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When I run across this problem, I do a simple test. Have one of the characters talk the character that has the name issue. Have the character state it both ways. See which one is the real name. Most of the time, it'll probably go just Master. I can only see the capitalizing of an article for a name is if the article is really part of the name. Or if their is more than one Masters in a room, and this one just happens to be top dog of them all.
Hope this helps.
Shadowwritr
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In my book, I italicized it on some pages and used the apostrophes on other pages. In essence, I gave the 'title' an exclusivity ie. "The Praying Mantis" or in some cases, I'd put a simple adjective; the notorious Praying Mantis and it refers to the person or character and by capping the first letters, you'll instantly give him a point of reference and description. By capitalizing, it also becomes a proper noun. As far as the usage of apostrophes or other forms, I'd say it depends on the author's preference. I'd seen so many instances of different ways of usage ... apostrophe's, all caps, italics ... but the end result was the same, it denoted a proper noun connotation. It really is up to your adjectives to describe your antagonist. Cool Master, Dim-witted Master, Sad Master, Killer Master. Have fun. Hope this helps.
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