Literature Quiz for Grade 7 Students

What is the definition of a polyglot?

• scores high on an IQ test

• is good at math

• has a lot of brothers and sisters

• knows many languages

Which type of figurative language is used in the line 'His feet were as big as boots'?

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

What is an antagonist?

• author

• narrator

• good guy

• enemy

What is a two-line rhyming stanza called?

• quintet

• quatrain

• sextet

• couplet

What is a moral?

Identify the figurative language in the following line of poetry:
“The tropical storm slept for two days.”

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

"We went to the concession stand and, as usual, there was a line a mile long, so we had to wait." This sentence contains which use of figurative language?

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• onomatopeia

• personification

What is the common word for a "hare"?

• mongoose

• snake

• rabbit

• bird

Instead of a compass and map, what can we use to search for treasure?

• GPS

• NOAA

• television

• virtual reality

A character in a story or play who opposes the hero is called_____.

• antagonist

• villain

• protagonist

• narrator