Statistics for Literary Terms - X, Y, Z

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
A colloquial term meaning to tell a tall or improbably story: 'to spin a ____'	Yarn	88%
A name given to a particularly sesnational kind of journalism which flourished in America in the 1880s.	Yellow Journalism	63%
The trend, fashion or taste of a particular period, e.g: obsessions with death in the jacobean period.	Zeitgeist	63%
A figure of speech in which the same word is applied to two others in a different sense. For example 'she looked at the object with suspicion and a magnifying glass'.	Zeugma	25%
A servant-clown in commedia dell'arte. Can be used to refer to jesters in general.	Zany	13%
A german term denoting a novel which is mainly concerned with an author's critical analysis of the age in which he or she lives.	Zeitroman	13%
A form of academic research which seeks to quest for sources behind works of imagination	Xanaduism	0%
Term used to describe a wandering poet with a witty and satirical talent	Xenophanic	0%
Cheap editions of novels bound in yellow boards	Yellow-backs	0%
A Russian term for 'trans-sense' language	Zaum	0%
Love poems sang by South Slav peasant women	Zenske pesme	0%