WorksheetsThe Class Game by Mary Casey
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Mary Casey, the poet, is from which class?
Middle class
Upper class
Working class
Casey published 'The Class Game' in a magazine called Voices. Which poets was this aimed at?
All poets
Professional poets
Young poets
Working class poets
Who was the Prime Minister when Casey wrote her poem?
Boris Johnson
Margaret Thatcher
David Cameron
Tony Blair
The Prime Minister at the time made several decisions which affected which class?
All classes
Upper class
Working class
Middle class
Where is Mary Casey from?
Norwich
Liverpool
Birmingham
Manchester
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
Casey highlights how class is a huge part of our (a)
Casey feels (a) that society makes, often negative, assumptions about people based on their class.
What does Casey use to make the reader listen?
Similes
Rhetorical questions
Direct address
Alliteration
There are two groups of language used in the poem: Liverpudlian working class ___________ and __________ English
(a)
What point of view is the poem written in?
First person
Second person
Third person
The rhyme scheme is ___________
inconsistent
consistent
The poem is one stanza. This is called a ____________
conversation
diary
dramatic monologue
speech
What is 'How can you tell what class I'm from?' an example of? Tick all that apply throughout the poem
Rhetorical question
Alliteration
Repetition
Direct address
Casey is (a) of her class and where she comes from.
Complete the quotation: 'Have I a label on me ______, and another on me ____?' (Just write the missing words in the answer box)
(a)
Complete the quotation: 'So why do you always wince when you hear / Me say 'Tara' to me '_________' instead of 'Bye _________ _____'? (Just write the three missing words in the answer box).
(a)
Select all the examples of Liverpudlian working class dialect
belly
corpy
Ma
stomach
Select all the examples of Standard English
toilet
bread pudding
stomach
Ma
