QR Challenge: Elements of Poetry
Teacher Notes
A. Prior to the lesson:
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
- Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
- Bring these devices into the lesson.
3. Print out the QR codes.
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
B. The lesson:
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!
C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Questions / Answers (teacher reference)
Question | Answer |
1. a group of lines in a poem that forms a unit | STANZA
|
2. a repeated word, phrase, or line | REFRAIN
| 3. the use of words that have the same ending sound | RHYME
| 4. when rhyming words are within a poem | INTERNAL RHYME
| 5. when the rhyming words are at the end of a line | END RHYME
| 6. the use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning | ONOMATOPOEIA
| 7. the repetition of the same beginning sound in words close together | ALLITERATION
| 8. having a definite beat or rhythm pattern | METER
| 9. having NO definite beat or rhythm; “free” of a regular beat | FREE VERSE
| 10. a comparison of two UNLIKE things using “like” or “as” | SIMILE
| 11. a comparison of two UNLIKE things NOT using “like” or “as” | METAPHOR
| 12. giving human qualities to non-human things | PERSONIFICATION
| 13. an expression that cannot be made sense of its words literally | IDIOM
| 14. carries a comparison of two unlike things through an entire poem | EXMETAPHOR
| 15. Repetition of similar vowel sounds that are followed by different consonants | ASSONANCE
| 16. speaking out loudly enough for an audience to hear clearly | PROJECTION
| 17. speaking with emotion in order to captivate the audience | EXPRESSION
| 18. pronouncing each syllable of each word clearly and distinctly | ENUNCIATION |
Elements of Poetry: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=a-group-of-lines-in-a-poem-that-forms-a-unit
Question 1 (of 18)
Elements of Poetry: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=a-repeated-word,-phrase,-or-line
Question 2 (of 18)
Elements of Poetry: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=the-use-of-words-that-have-the-same-ending-sound
Question 3 (of 18)
Elements of Poetry: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=when-rhyming-words-are-within-a-poem
Question 4 (of 18)
Elements of Poetry: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=when-the-rhyming-words-are-at-the-end-of-a-line
Question 5 (of 18)
Elements of Poetry: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=the-use-of-a-word-whose-sound-imitates-or-suggests-its-meaning
Question 6 (of 18)
Elements of Poetry: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=the-repetition-of-the-same-beginning-sound-in-words-close-together
Question 7 (of 18)
Elements of Poetry: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=having-a-definite-beat-or-rhythm-pattern
Question 8 (of 18)
Elements of Poetry: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=having-NO-definite-beat-or-rhythm;-“free”-of-a-regular-beat
Question 9 (of 18)
Elements of Poetry: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=a-comparison-of-two-UNLIKE-things-using-“like”-or-“as”
Question 10 (of 18)
Elements of Poetry: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=a-comparison-of-two-UNLIKE-things-NOT-using-“like”-or-“as”
Question 11 (of 18)
Elements of Poetry: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=giving-human-qualities-to-non-human-things
Question 12 (of 18)
Elements of Poetry: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=an-expression-that-cannot-be-made-sense-of-its-words-literally
Question 13 (of 18)
Elements of Poetry: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=carries-a-comparison-of-two-unlike-things-through-an-entire-poem
Question 14 (of 18)
Elements of Poetry: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Repetition-of-similar-vowel-sounds-that-are-followed-by-different-consonants
Question 15 (of 18)
Elements of Poetry: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=speaking-out-loudly-enough-for-an-audience-to-hear-clearly
Question 16 (of 18)
Elements of Poetry: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=speaking-with-emotion-in-order-to-captivate-the-audience
Question 17 (of 18)
Elements of Poetry: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=pronouncing-each-syllable-of-each-word-clearly-and-distinctly
Question 18 (of 18)