Paraphrase is a restatement of the meaning of a text or passage
C. Poe wanted to challenge social conformity and change the outlook on how people reacted to certain events. If you look a lot of his writing was dark and often gruesome. Do to this he was able to change the way writers transitioned their work, he also help classify the first detective workings as well as begin the science fiction genre.
Compound sentence (even though technically he also made the sentence longer)