Transcript Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd
“Another Brick in the Wall Part Two”
lyrics by Roger Waters
The beginning scene of the video
shows the boy being passed by a
train full of people desperately
reaching for freedom. This can be
seen as a)
b)
c)
d)
A juxtaposition to his state of mind
An allusion to the Holocaust
A foreshadowing of the boy’s fate
B and C
“When we grew up and went to school,
there were certain teachers, who would hurt
the children anyway they could by pouring
their derision upon anything we did,
exposing every weakness however, carefully
hidden by the kids.”
The preceding line is an example of –
a) A cumulative sentence
b) A mandate
c) A complex sentence
d) A compound sentence
But in the town it was well known that when they got
home at night
their fat and psychopathic wives
would thrash them within inches of their lives!
The preceding passage employs –
a)
b)
c)
d)
Irony
Situational chiasmus
Antithesis
Bathos
The images of children with
identical, masked, faces suggests a)
b)
c)
d)
Education destroys creativity
Teachers cannot distinguish students
Education trains students to be
compliant
A and C
“We don't need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom”
Line 3 employs –
a)
b)
c)
d)
Alliteration
Connotation
Colloquialism
Hyperbole
“When we grew up…anything we
did…we don’t need…we don’t
need…”
The use of the collective pronoun ‘we’ suggests –
The students have organized in revolt
b) All students have had the same experience
c) All schools are alike
d) The children have already been forced to
conform
a)
The video and lyrics, in their
entirety, offer an argument of Definition
b) Evaluation
c) Proposal
a)
Hey! Teacher! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
Lines 2 and 3 incorporate –
a)
b)
c)
d)
Anaphora
Metaphor
Complex sentence
All of the above
The video and lyrics, in their
entirety, can be categorized as -
Forensic
b) Epideictic
c) Deliberative
a)
Answer the following question from
the author’s, Roger Waters’,
perspective.
What role should schools play in
developing the individuality and
creativity of students?
The single, “Another Brick in the Wall
Part 2,” as well as the album The Wall,
were banned in South Africa in 1980
after the song was adopted by
supporters of a nationwide school
boycott protesting racial inequities in
education.
TRUE or FALSE