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. a rhetorical device that is a memorable, brief, interesting, and surprising satirical statement | Epigram | 2. takes place when two or more words, close to one another repeat the same vowel sound, but start with different consonant sounds | Assonance | 3. repetition often takes place in quick succession | Consonance | 4. an error of chronology or timeline in a literary piece; anything that is out of time and out of place | Anachronism | 5. A novel or story whose theme is the moral or psychological growth of the main character, usually male | Bildungsroman | 6. in literature, drama, and film, grotesque or morbid humor used to express the absurdity, insensitivity, paradox, and cruelty of the modern world. | Black Humor | 7. Language describing ideas and qualities rather than observable or specific things, people, or places | Abstract Language | 8. a non-scholarly narrative in metrical verse; tale of love, adventure, knightly conflict, and pageantry | Chivalric Romance | 9. An idealized and often illicit form of love celebrated in the literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in which a knight or courtier devotes himself to a noblewoman who is usually married and feigns indifference to preserve her reputation | Courtly Love | 10. All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests | Connotation | 11. The dictionary definition of a word or literary meaning | Denotation | 12. An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | Euphemism | 13. The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage | Ambiguity | 14. the study of language in literature | Linguistics | 15. any recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story, | Motif/Theme | 16. A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson | Parable | 17. A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth | Paradox | 18. a literary device wherein the author attributes human emotions and traits to nature or inanimate objects | Pathetic Fallacy | 19. an idealistic literary and philosophical movement of the mid-19th century | Transcendentalism in America | 20. A nineteenth-century literary movement that was an extension of realism and that claimed to portray life exactly as it was | Naturalism | 21. an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one | Dystopia | 22. the quality of appearing to be true, real, likely, or probable; piece of reality | Versimilitude | 23. a style of writing that portrays the inner (often chaotic) workings of a character's mind | Stream of Consciousness |
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