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)