THE CLASS GAME

Question 1

Context

Answer 1

Housewife from Liverpool
Published in Voices - magazine that published working class writers
Autobiographical account

Question 2

Form

Answer 2

Dramatic monologue

Mostly written in rhyming couplets - some half rhymes - doesn’t stick to formal convention - pride in identity

Question 3

Structure

Answer 3

Single long stanza - outburst of outrage and frustration
Refrain - rhetorical question
Very little punctuations apart from question marks - challenging tone

Question 4

Quotations

Answer 4

“How can you tell what class I’m from?”
“corpy.. pretty little semi”
“Tara… Ma… Bye Mummy dear”
“hands are stained with toil? Instead of soft lily-white with perfume and oil”
“Why do you care what class I’m from?”
“I’m proud of the class that I come from.”

Question 5

Key themes

Answer 5

anger, effects of conflict, prejudice, individual experiences, identity