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 poet has specifically chosen to create a particular effect, meaning or atmosphere. | diction | 4. A contradiction what is expected and what really happens. | irony | 5. Use of word pictures, figures of speech and description to evoke ideas, feelings, objects, actions, states of mind etc. | 6. A comparative description based on similarity between two things, but one that directly connects them e.g. That child is a perfect monkey. | metaphor | 7. Use of words which echo their meaning in sound e.g. “Snap”, “bang” etc. | onomatopoeia | 8. Technique of presenting things which are not human as if they are. | personification | 9. References to historical or mythological events. | allusion | 10. The use of words with matching sounds, usually at the end of each line. | rhyme | 11. The pace or beat of the poem—can vary enormously from line to line in order to achieve a particular effect. | rhythm | 12. Repeated consonant sounds in the middle or at end of words. | consonance | 13. 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 | 14. How the poem appears on the page, how it is constructed, organized. E.g. ballad, acrostic, sonnet, blank verse etc. | structure | 15. Another, more sophisticated word for a verse in a poem. | stanza | 16. 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 | 17. Use of two contradictory words together to create an image or make a point. | oxymoron |
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