How do you understand when a poet is using words that have double meaning?

Michelle is terrified of spiders when she found one in the bathroom, she panicked, refusing to shower for three days.

After Lance reads "The Most Dangerous Game," he thinks about what he did while he read: he used a dictionary to look up a word, he summarized the events of the plot;

What was most likely the author's purpose in naming black Guelphs among the sinners in hell?

Which sentence from the passage BEST explains why Thoreau chose to live in the woods?

The quality of logic in writing is called

Select the correctly punctuated sentence. A) After six hours the bright hot sun became unbearable. B) After six hours, the bright hot sun became unbearable. C) After six hours the bright, hot sun became unbearable.

When a storm kills the forest. what is another word for kill?

Who killed Julia Stoner in the story of the Speckled Band?

Something that means more than what it is

How many stanzas does this poem have? How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen! What old December's bareness every where!