Statistics for Literary Terms - J

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Technical vocabuary which sounds like a 'secret language' to non-specialists	Jargon	86%
A paper, periodical or magazine, often of a academic nature	Journal	86%
The period of King James I (1603-25)	Jacobean	71%
Poetry which is recited to the accompaniment of music by artists such as Steve Allen, Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock	Jazz Poetry	57%
A form of nonsense; untelligible speech of writing	Jabberwocky	43%
A verse with a catchy rhythm, empathic rhyme and alliteration	Jingle	29%
In the style of manner of Samuel Johnson (1709-84). That is, characterized by grand, lapidary language, balanced phrases, sentences and periods, etc..	Johnsonian	14%
Physical or intellectual pleasure, delight, or ecstasy	Jouissance	14%
A manner of non-fiction writing which uses ready-made phrases and formulas, and which breeds its own clichés in abundance	Journalese	14%
Works done in one's youth	Juvenilia	14%
A tale of woe; a sustained complaint; a prolonged railing against the world, the times, the estate of man and God.	Jeremiad	0%
An epigram, witticism or brief flight of fancy, urbanely expressed. Master of wit Oscar Wilde was particularly adept at these	jeu d'esprit	0%