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Many short story collections are titled something like Foobar and Other Stories. Suppose I am writing a review of such a collection and want to refer to the story entitled "Foobar". I wish to say something like

The [story referred to by the title], "Foobar", is the highlight of the collection.

What term or phrase can I use in place of "story referred to by the title"?

If Foobar were a character, I would use the adjective "eponymous", e.g. "The eponymous Foobar and his sidekick Baz must embark on a quest to...". But this doesn't seem quite right when the entity is a story title.

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Ah, I just remembered the phrase I was looking for: "title story".

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    The adjectival form is titular.
    – Marthaª
    Commented Jul 24, 2014 at 5:03
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    @Marthaª Perhaps, but I didn't want to use that for two reasons: (a) it has a distracting second meaning of "in name only", and (b) I always associate it with "titular counselor", which makes me think of Akaky Akakievich, which lends the adjective a sort of foolishness in my eyes.
    – augurar
    Commented Jul 24, 2014 at 5:12
  • @Marthaª Also, Wiktionary lists this usage of "titular" as proscribed, I'm not sure by whom.
    – augurar
    Commented Jul 24, 2014 at 5:12

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