The Enormous Room
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The Enormous Room is a semi-autobiographical memoir by E. E. Cummings recounting his imprisonment in a French detention camp during World War I, noted for its experimental style and humanistic insight.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Enormous Room canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Target entity: The Enormous Room Context triple: [E. E. Cummings, notableWork, The Enormous Room]
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The Pit and the Pendulum
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The Colour Out of Space
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Door into the Dark
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- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: The Enormous Room Target entity description: The Enormous Room is a semi-autobiographical memoir by E. E. Cummings recounting his imprisonment in a French detention camp during World War I, noted for its experimental style and humanistic insight.
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A.
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Pit and the Pendulum is a Gothic short story that follows a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition facing psychological terror and a gruesome mechanical execution device.
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B.
The L-Shaped Room
The L-Shaped Room is a 1962 British drama film, based on Lynne Reid Banks’s novel, about a young unmarried pregnant woman who moves into a shabby London bedsit and was acclaimed for Leslie Caron’s powerful performance.
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C.
The Colour Out of Space
The Colour Out of Space is a 1927 science fiction–horror short story by H. P. Lovecraft about a mysterious extraterrestrial presence that slowly corrupts a rural New England farm and its inhabitants.
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D.
Room of the Three Windows
The Room of the Three Windows is a notable Inca ceremonial chamber at Machu Picchu, distinguished by its three trapezoidal windows overlooking the Sacred Plaza and the surrounding mountains.
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E.
Door into the Dark
Door into the Dark is a 1969 poetry collection by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney that deepens his exploration of rural life, memory, and identity through richly textured, earthy verse.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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memoir ⓘ semi-autobiographical work ⓘ |
| author | E. E. Cummings ⓘ |
| basedOn |
E. E. Cummings' imprisonment in France
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E. E. Cummings' personal experiences ⓘ |
| contains |
anti-war elements
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social criticism ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| genre |
autobiographical novel
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memoir ⓘ |
| hasAutobiographicalElement | yes ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
E. E. Cummings
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surface form:
E. E. Cummings (narrator)
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| hasForm | prose ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryCategory | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | modernism ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | important early work of E. E. Cummings ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
World War I
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humanism ⓘ imprisonment ⓘ war ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
critique of military bureaucracy
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humanistic insight ⓘ innovative narrative style ⓘ |
| placeOfNarrative | France ⓘ |
| portrays |
conditions in a French detention camp
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diverse group of prisoners ⓘ |
| setting | French detention camp ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic |
experimental prose
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linguistic playfulness ⓘ nonlinear narrative ⓘ stream-of-consciousness elements ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| theme |
absurdity of war
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friendship ⓘ human dignity ⓘ identity ⓘ individual versus authority ⓘ injustice ⓘ |
| timePeriodDescribed | World War I ⓘ |
| tone |
compassionate
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ironic ⓘ satirical ⓘ |
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