The group presentation discusses how Edgar Allan Poe, Dante Alighieri, and Alexander Graham Bell innovated communication and language. Poe wrote creepy stories that introduced new psychological styles. Dante wrote the Inferno in Italian instead of Latin to reach more readers. Bell invented the telephone, revolutionizing how people communicate over distances. Together, these three figures changed communication by breaking conventions and finding new forms of expression.

1. Group Presentation
Loreal Sands
Savannah Hartline
Ashley Robinson

2. Main Concept
•Edgar Allan Poe, Dante, and
Alexander Bell changed how people
communicated.
•Brought a new style of language

3. The Innovators
Edgar Allan Poe
•Wrote poetry and short stories that
contained such a creepy and
mysterious tone and style.
•psychological depth and
intensity

4. The Innovators
Dante Alighieri
•Wrote Dante's Inferno in Italian
instead of Latin.
•easier for more people to
comprehend

5. The Innovators
Alexander Graham Bell
•Invented the telephone
•easy/new way to be able to
communicate to others

6. Main Idea: Conclusion
These three individuals represent
innovation of communication and
language. They went against the norm
and succeeded greatly.

7. Works Cited
www.online-literature.com/poe
www.online-literature.com/dante
inventors.about.com/library/inventor
s/
bltelephone2.htm