The Class Game by Mary Casey (Conflict Poetry Ed Excel GCSE)

The poet Mary Casey would describe herself as belonging to which class category?

• Middle class

• Upper class

• Working class

Casey published 'The Class Game' in a magazine called Voices. What type of poets wrote for this magazine?

• Poets from minority backgrounds

• LGBTQ+ poets

• Young poets

• Poets from working class backgrounds

Who was the Prime Minister when Casey wrote her poem?

• Boris Johnson

• Margaret Thatcher

• David Cameron

• Tony Blair

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Where is Mary Casey from?

• Norwich

• Liverpool

• Birmingham

• Manchester

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What does 'class' mean? (In the context of the poem)

• Something that is really good

• A group of school children

• Different races

• People of the same social or economic level

What does 'corpy' mean?

• Council house

• Short for corporation

• Dead body / corpse

• A shop

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Casey highlights how class is a huge part of our (a)  

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Casey feels (a)   that society makes, often negative, assumptions about people based on their class.

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What does Casey use to make the reader listen?

• Similes

• Rhetorical questions

• Direct address

• Alliteration

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There are two groups of language used in the poem: Liverpudlian working class ___________ and __________ English

(a)  

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