The Class Game

Question 1

What does the poet challenge?

Answer 1

Stereotypes.

Question 2

What is there a strong link between?

Answer 2

Identity and spoken language.

Question 3

What type of language is used?

Answer 3

Colloquial.

Question 4

What setting does the poem reflect?

Answer 4

Liverpudlian setting.

Question 5

How does the poet mock others?

Answer 5

By self-consciously using ‘their’ language.

Question 6

The people who judge her are what?

Answer 6

Not given a voice.

She is empowered.

Question 7

What is the rhyming like?

Answer 7

AABB rhyming couplets

Question 8

What is the tone like throughout the poem?

Answer 8

Lively, humorous tone.

But serious tone also.

Question 9

What are the stanzas like?

Answer 9

One continuous stanza.

Question 10

What other poems does Class Game link too?

Answer 10

Half Caste.
Cousin Kate.
No Problem.

Question 11

What does the title “Class Game” suggest

Answer 11

Irony because its not a game to the speaker.

Uses humour to explore the situation but a very serious topic/issue.

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Direct address question.

Sense of outrage.

Question 13

“Wear an ‘at not a scarf”

Answer 13

Colloquial language.

Question 14

“Me say ‘Tara’ to me ‘Ma’ instead of ‘Bye Mummy dear?”

Answer 14

Question.

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Makes point strong and even more ridicule.

Question 16

What is a “corpy”?

Answer 16

Council house in Liverpool.

Question 17

“Wirral Way”

Answer 17

Nice and posh area.

Question 18

“And commute into Liverpool by train each day?”

Answer 18

Highlights how ridiculous it is being judged by class.

Question 19

What phrase repeats?

Answer 19

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

Question 20

“Sitting on your patio (We have a yard)?”

Answer 20

Ridicules the difference in semantics.

Same word.

Question 21

Where is there humour throughout the play?

Name a quote.

Answer 21

“Have i a label on me head, and another on me bum?”

Question 22

“Toil”

“Oil”

Answer 22

Rhyming couplets.

Contrasting images.

Question 23

“Don’t crook me little finger when i drink me tea”

Answer 23

Mocking traditional images class.

Question 24

“Say toilet instead of bog when i want to pee”

Answer 24

Further questions colloquial language.

Question 25

“Why do you care what class i’m from?”

Answer 25

Slight change of question.

Redirects us as a listener.

Question 26

“Gullet”

Answer 26

Crude term for wind pipe.

Question 27

“Mate”

Answer 27

Ironic.

Colloquial term.

Question 28

“A cleaner is me mother”

Answer 28

Stereotypical lower class job.

Question 29

“Docker”

Answer 29

Colloquial language.
Traditional lower class job.

Question 30

Name 2 rhyming couplets.

Answer 30

“Nelly”

“Belly”

Question 31

What does the quote “And i’m proud of the class that i come from” show.

Answer 31

Strength and integrity.
Change in tone.
Class is painted more favourably then those who judge her.