The Class Game

Question 1

“How can you tell what class i’m from?”

Answer 1

Direct address question. (Sense of outrage.)

Question 2

What does the repetition of “How can you tell what class i’m from?” do?

Answer 2

Makes point strong and even more ridicule.

Question 3

What is a “corpy”?

Answer 3

Council house in Liverpool.

Question 4

“In a pretty little semi, out Wirral way”

Answer 4

Image of the perfect life, away from the gritty inner city. The suburban dream:

Question 5

Imagery via lang and senses- contrasting images between manual jobs and non-manual

Answer 5

“or is it because my hands are stained with toil? Instead of soft lily-white with perfume and oil”

Question 6

An example of colloquial language instead of standard language

Answer 6

“With an ‘olly in me mouth”

Question 7

Final blunt statement- gets the message across

Answer 7

“And I’m proud of the class that I come from”

Question 8

Caesura- used to effect, show emotion and prepare us for the rant

Answer 8

“Well, mate! A cleaner…”