QR Challenge: Figurative Language / Poetic Devices

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

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.

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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!

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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.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. 1. Chicago is a city that is fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action.	simile
2. 2. Drip—hiss—drip—hiss fall the raindrops.	onomatopoeia
3. 3. The leaves are little yellow fish / swimming in the river.	metaphor
4. 4. Gracefully she sat down sideways, / With a simper smile.	alliteration
5. 5. The old clock down in the parlor / Like a sleepless mourner grieves,	simile
6. 6. When the stooping sky / Leans down upon the hills	personification
7. 7. Oh, never, if I live to a million, / Shall I feel such a terrible pain.	hyperbole
8. 8. I dreamed a dream next Tuesday week,	assonance
9. 9. All night long with rush and lull / The rain kept drumming on the roof:	personification
10. 10. Big Balloons Bounce into the / Big Blue Sky / Up, up, and away / There they go	alliteration
11. 11. There’s a faucet in the basement / that had dripped one drop all year since he fixed it, we can’t find it / without wearing scuba gear.	hyperbole
12. 12. The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,	metaphor
13. 13. Bang!!! There goes another building,	onomatopoeia
14. 14. Hear the mellow wedding bells,	assonance
15. 15. My love is like a red, red rose.	simile

 

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