Title Drop, by a landslide! 13 votes!
Congratulations, Title Drop. This year, you made your debut at Naked Without Books! Next year...who knows? You could be in Webster's. I can also see your name attached to a newborn foal who will one day be a Triple Crown winner.
OK, the Americans should be rested up from the election. It's been 3 weeks. Now we all can turn our attention to important things -- like what to call the phrase in the book which is the source of the title. Finding this during my reading produces such a frisson of pleasure that if there is no name for it, I must name it something. So let's vote. Here are the possibilities that have been generated so far:
Namesake
Titular phrase
Eponymous phrase
Title drop
_____________ (write-in choice)
Leave your choice in the comment section. The votes will be counted and announced on Sunday, November 30.
I talked to my sister-in-law a couple of nights ago, and she had a question that stumped me: What is the literary term for that part of a novel where the line that contains the title of the novel appears? Like the part of To Kill A Mockingbird where Atticus lectures Jem on the use of his new shotgun saying he can shoot all the blue jays (?) he wants, but it's a sin to kill a mockingbird... Or the part of Gone With The Wind where Scarlett has fled Atlanta and is trying to get home to Tara and her mother and she wonders if Tara is still standing, or is it gone with the wind that has swept through Georgia...
I love it when I find the title phrase in novels, but I didn't know there was a specific literary term attached to it. Sister-in-law is positive that such a term exists. What say you, O Book Bloggers?
