A litter is newborn animals born to one mother.
A writer must be aware of connotation to produce various emotional effects in the reader, but it cannot be said that denotation has no literary use since realism as an era was mostly about denotation which would lead to some further understanding.
Temperature affects the physiology of living things as well as the density and state of water. It exerts an important influence on living organisms because few can survive at temperatures below 0 °C (32 °F) due to metabolic constraints.
