The Class Game Flashcards
What does the poet challenge?
Stereotypes.
What is there a strong link between?
Identity and spoken language.
What type of language is used?
Colloquial.
What setting does the poem reflect?
Liverpudlian setting.
How does the poet mock others?
By self-consciously using ‘their’ language.
The people who judge her are what?
Not given a voice.
She is empowered.
What is the rhyming like?
AABB rhyming couplets
What is the tone like throughout the poem?
Lively, humorous tone.
But serious tone also.
What are the stanzas like?
One continuous stanza.
What other poems does Class Game link too?
Half Caste.
Cousin Kate.
No Problem.
What does the title “Class Game” suggest
Irony because its not a game to the speaker.
Uses humour to explore the situation but a very serious topic/issue.
“How can you tell what class i’m from?”
Direct address question.
Sense of outrage.
“Wear an ‘at not a scarf”
Colloquial language.
“Me say ‘Tara’ to me ‘Ma’ instead of ‘Bye Mummy dear?”
Question.
What does the repetition of “How can you tell what class i’m from?” do
Makes point strong and even more ridicule.
What is a “corpy”?
Council house in Liverpool.
“Wirral Way”
Nice and posh area.
“And commute into Liverpool by train each day?”
Highlights how ridiculous it is being judged by class.
What phrase repeats?
“How can you tell what class i’m from?”
“Sitting on your patio (We have a yard)?”
Ridicules the difference in semantics.
Same word.
Where is there humour throughout the play?
Name a quote.
“Have i a label on me head, and another on me bum?”
“Toil”
“Oil”
Rhyming couplets.
Contrasting images.
“Don’t crook me little finger when i drink me tea”
Mocking traditional images class.
“Say toilet instead of bog when i want to pee”
Further questions colloquial language.
“Why do you care what class i’m from?”
Slight change of question.
Redirects us as a listener.
“Gullet”
Crude term for wind pipe.
“Mate”
Ironic.
Colloquial term.
“A cleaner is me mother”
Stereotypical lower class job.
“Docker”
Colloquial language. Traditional lower class job.
Name 2 rhyming couplets.
“Nelly”
“Belly”
What does the quote “And i’m proud of the class that i come from” show.
Strength and integrity.
Change in tone.
Class is painted more favourably then those who judge her.
