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When naming anything -- a place, a weapon, a title, a society, anything -- just add a prepositional phrase to get instant AWESOME! This is most commonly seen when being used to beef up the titles of movies and books. The most frequently used preposition for this is "of (put noun of choice here)", but "with" and "for" are also usable. Often times, when this is used, the thing being upgraded wouldn't be half as cool or interesting without their handy-dandy prepositional phrases.
Sub-tropes include:
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Compare [[Prepositions Are Not to End Sentences With]]. Can often be [[A Good Name for a Rock Band]], even if that trope name's not an example of one.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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* Arthur Golden's ''[[Memoirs of a Geisha]]''.
* The titles of most [[Sherlock Holmes]] stories fit this trope (e.g. ''A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four'', etc.)
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''—and bonus volume titles ''The Fellowship of the Ring'' and ''The Return of the King''
* The [[Chronicles of Prydain]] has this in its series title; additionally, the novels ''The Book of Three'' and ''The Castle of Llyr'' have [[The X of Y]] going for them.
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