ENGLISH 1020 POETRY ESSAY

In a typed minimum 3-page essay (not including the Work Cited page), choose THREE of the following literary elements to analyze the theme of Wake up Little Stevie by Christina Olson. The literary elements you may choose from are: imagery, symbols, point of view, diction, irony, setting, or another element of your choice. Use textual evidence to support, illustrate, or prove your thesis. No secondary sources are allowed for this essay, other than standard non-on-line dictionary definitions of words.

Follow MLA guidelines, Standard English, and try to write in the present tense. 
There are some guidelines you must follow for this paper:

____1. The essay must be written in Times New Roman, size 12 font. Bold your thesis.

____2. The final essay turned in must be a minimum of 3 full pages; any paper less than 3 full pages will receive the grade of 0.

____3. If you use block quotes (more than 3 lines of poetry), then you must compensate for the amount of lines taken up by the block quote. In other words, your paper must be longer than the required minimum 3 page length.