The answer that best supports my understanding of the denotative meaning of a word is the last option - the denotative meaning of a word involves the actual, dictionary definition of a word.
The other options refer to the connotative, and not denotative meaning of a word.
The correct answer for the question that is being presented above is this one: "to provide information about how the characters should move or speak onstage." Based on how the stage directions are used in this excerpt from act I, scene I of Richard III, the main purpose of providing stage directions in a drama is to provide information about how the characters should move or speak onstage
Correct answer in C, not b.
This allusion is to Julius Caesar & Brutus - his followers were so loyal as to die for the cause.
Here, Hamlet's friend is willing to die for him.
My best guess would be, "B", "Grammatical conventions were much different then."