1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.
2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.
2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.
3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Question | Answer |
1. Repetition of connected words beginning with the same letter. Used to highlight the feeling of sound and movement, to intensify feeling or to bind words together. | alliteration | 2. Repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds in words which follow each other. | assonance | 3. The words that the writer has specifically chosen to create a particular effect, meaning or atmosphere. | diction | 4. Use of word pictures, figures of speech and description to evoke ideas, feelings, objects, actions, states of mind etc. | imagery | 5. A comparative description based on similarity between two things, but one that directly connects them e.g. That child is a perfect monkey. | metaphor | 6. Use of words which echo their meaning in sound e.g. “Snap”, “bang” etc. | onomatopoeia | 7. Technique of presenting things which are not human as if they are. | personification | 8. Repeated consonant sounds in the middle or at end of words. | consonance | 9. A form of comparison based on a similarity between two things, which suggests one object shares features with another but is not wholly identical e.g. The child chattered like a monkey. (HINT: “like” or “as” are key words to spot) | simile | 10. When a word, phrase or image stands for or evokes a complex set of ideas, which is determined by its context. E.g. the sun can symbolize life, while a red rose can symbolize romantic love. | symbolism | 11. Use of two contradictory words together to create an image or make a point. | oxymoron | 12. Reference to historical or mythological events. | allusion | 13. An exaggeration or overstatement. | hyperbole | 14. He runs crazy like a fox. | simile | 15. She was a brilliant idiot, solving difficult math problems, but forgetting where her next class was. | oxymoron | 16. The truck brakes screamed their protest at the sudden stop. | personification | 17. My merciful mother mended my mangy jeans. | alliteration | 18. Eating apples makes me happy. | consonance | 19. She is the wind that propels me to follow my dreams. | metaphor | 20. The soothing cool water ran over Sue’s hand. | assonance | 21. My mom will kill me if I am late again. | hyperbole | 22. The widow’s eyes misted whenever she looked at the gold band on her finger. | symbolism | 23. The contented kitten rumbled and purred in my lap. | onomatopoeia | 24. The rise in poverty will unlock the Pandora’s box of crimes. | allusion |
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