1. What is the difference between literal and figurative meanings of words?

2. How can a figurative usage of a word eventually become an accepted dictionary definition?

1. What are connotations and how do they differ from literal definitions?

2. How do poets use words with multiple meanings and connotations to create complexity in their texts?

3. In Robert Frost's 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,' how can the phrase 'miles to go before I sleep' be read both literally and figuratively?

1. How does the word 'dark' in Frost's poem function with multiple connotations beyond its literal meaning?

2. What is the significance of the winter solstice reference in 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' and how does it relate to the poem's meaning?

1. What role do adjectives and adverbs play in revealing a speaker's perspective and attitude toward ideas and events?

2. How do the modifiers in Shelley's 'Ozymandias' emphasize the theme of decay and ruin?

3. What is the overall ironic effect created by the modifiers describing the statue and desert in 'Ozymandias'?

1. What is hyperbole and how does it create emphasis or intensify a speaker's perspective?

2. How does W. H. Auden use hyperbole in 'As I Walked Out One Evening' to convey the duration of the speaker's love?

3. What is understatement and how does it achieve a similar effect to hyperbole despite being its opposite?

4. How does Frost use understatement in 'Fire and Ice' to emphasize the destructive power of desire and hate?