3.  What is a prototype ?  The first of its kind from which other forms are developed or copied. Prototype Copy

4. “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”  Published in 1841 in Graham’s Magazine  Poe is the only American writer to create a new form of writing.  “Father” of the detective story  Created what he called “tales of ratiocination” (stories of deduction, in which there is a mystery, and it is the job of the protagonist to look at all the evidence and reason his way to the answer).

5. What makes a good detective?

6. According to Poe, a good detective must have: Powers of observation Retentive Memory Vivid imagination

7.  Epigraphs are like little appetizers to the great entrée of a story. They illuminate important aspects of the story, and they get us headed in the right direction.

8. There are two separate things going on in this epigraph: The first is what it says and the second is what it is. There are two separate things going on in this epigraph: The first is what it says and the second is what it is.

9. “What songs the Syrens sang, Or what name Achilles assumed When he hid himself among women, Although puzzling questions are not beyond all conjecture.” - Sir Thomas Brown (Urn Burial)

10. Who knows what songs the Syrens sang? No one who heard the syrens sing survived to describe it.

11.  Next up is Achilles. According to the story, Achilles’s mother, Thetis, heard a prophecy that her son was going to be killed at Troy, so to protect him, she dressed him up as a girl and hid him among the daughters of King Lycomedes.

13.  So, the quote poses two questions that are a challenge to answer. But, the passage is saying, even if we can’t know we can still have fun guessing (conjecturing).

14.  The epigraph is the focus: In this story, there will be something difficult, but not impossible to figure out.

15. TThe quote sets the stage (foreshadows).