This document provides instructions for a QR code scavenger hunt activity to learn about different types of figurative language. Students are directed to scan various QR codes to access websites answering questions about idioms, hyperbole, personification, onomatopoeia, alliteration, metaphors, allusions, and similes. The questions prompt students to identify examples of each figurative language technique after exploring the related QR code.

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QR Code Quest:
Figurative Language
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Directions ‐ Using an iPod Touch or your smart phone & the i‐Nigma QR Code Reader APP answer the questions by
following the QR Code Clues. Each QR Code on the back side of this handout will take you to a webpage that will help
you answer the questions below. Be sure to write the correct definitions of each example of figurative language
described in your Interactive Notebook and to record your answers to the question on this document.
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Did you know that there are more than 25,000 idioms in the English Language? An idiom is a group of words
whose collective meaning is quite different from their individual, literal meaning. Check out the list of idioms
on QR Code 1 and then choose two (2) idioms that you have been know to say and write them below.
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Have you ever seen or heard something that was such an exaggeration that it cannot possibly be true? Look at
the advertisement in QR Code 2 and explain the hyperbole this company uses to sell their product below.
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Can a little house on a hill smile happily while watching the sun and moon and stars all through the
changing seasons? Can a little train engine talk herself into pulling a bunch of heavy cars up a steep
hill by repeating, “I think I can, I think I can, I think I can”? Personification is giving human qualities to
non‐human things. Read the poem in QR Code 3 and choose a line that uses personification. What is
the poet suggesting has human like qualities?
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Wham, Zap, Caboom! This type of figurative language
is used in many comic books to convey an action
scene. Look at the QR code 4 and create a comic scene
using this Onomatopoeia‐ Words whose sounds
suggest their meaning.
Use the space on the right to create a scene that uses
the word in the QR Code.
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Alliterations – the repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words are sort of like tongue
twisters. Try saying the alliteration in QR Code 5 five times as fast as you can without slipping up your words.
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Sometimes visual metaphors are as powerful as words. A metaphor is a comparison of two unlike things
without using the words like or as. Look at QR Code 6 and write a metaphor for the image presented.
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So many of the television shows that you watch – Phineas and Ferb, Family Guy, The Simpson all make
references to people, an event from literature, sports, history, movies, or the arts. What is the allusion
referenced in the image in QR Code 7?
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This music artist has songs that are filled with comparison. More specifically, Similes – a comparison of two
unlike things using the words like or as
Use the QR Code 8 to find out which music artist we’re talking about. Then, choose a song and write down the
simile referenced in the song.
Song Title: ______________________________________________________
Simile referenced in the song: _______________________________________________________________

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