Chapter Trails
February 11, 2014 1:24 PM Subscribe
Is there a formal term for the hyphen separated list of keywords and phrases that you sometimes see at the beginning of chapters in a book? These usually form a sequential summary of the chapter ahead. I've most often seen this in older books, but recently in Robert MacFarlane's, "The Old Ways".
The prolix chapter outlines so favoured by Victorian novelists are, I think, called arguments. (Or, at least, that's what the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium calls them...)
posted by theodolite at 2:35 PM on February 11, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by theodolite at 2:35 PM on February 11, 2014 [2 favorites]
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