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. 1. Fortinbras is a(n) _____ of Hamlet’s; his take-charge attitude emphasizes Hamlet’s inability to take action. | foil | 2. 2. The settings of urban decay that are prevalent in 1984 are one of the _____(s) of the novel. | motif | 3. 3. If you believe that Creon gets what he deserves at the end of Antigone, you might say his suffering is ______. | poetic justice | 4. 4. The spooky settings and damsel-in-distress situation in Frankenstein qualify it as a ______ novel. | gothic | 5. 5. Creon’s excessive _______ is a major cause of his downfall. | hubris | 6. 6. In the line, “And now this: an emergency decree, they say, the Commander has just declared for all of Thebes,” the reader must consider the _______ of the word “Commander” to understand why Antigone uses it to refer to her uncle. | connotation | 7. 7. Some readers feel that the _______ of 1984 is the moment when Winston and Julia realize that they have been caught by the thought police. | climax | 8. 8. If Jon says, “My bad!” one could say he is using _______. | slang | 9. • Modified: So much depends / upon / the white chickens / beside the red wheel / barrow / glazed with rain / water | syntax | 10. 10. A fan referring to the Detroit Lions as “the Lions” is using _______________. | synecdochy | 11. 11. “I’m so sick of high school I could die” is an example of ________ | hyperbole | 12. 12. Because an ancient Greek audience watching Antigone for the first time was most likely familiar with the story, taken from well-known myths, they always had more information about the action than the characters on stage did. This is an example of ______ | dramatic irony | 13. And pay no worship to the garish sun. | enjambment | 14. 14. The novel Frankenstein consists of a sequence of letters the narrator has written to his sister; therefore, it’s a(n) __________________ novel. | epistolary | 15. “To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget, whatever it was necessary to forget…” | anaphora | 16. 16. What element of literature would dictate Shakespeare’s decision to write “To be or not to be” rather than “To stay alive or to die”? | diction | 17. 17 and 18. This line from Poe’s “The Raven” employs which two literary devices? | 18. “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,” | internal rhyme and alliteration | 19. Thus conscience does make cowards of us all | iambic pentameter | 20. 20. In 1984, Winston has already begun to have doubts about aspects of his society when the novel begins; one could say the story begins _____ | in medias res | 21. 21. The play Oedipus the King is a(n) ____________ to Antigone | prequel | 22. And home we brought you shoulder-high | imagery | 23. 23. As Huckleberry Finn’s adventures with Jim help him grow by teaching him valuable lessons about himself and mankind, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn could be considered a _____________ novel. | bildrungsroman |
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