Virginia SOL 10.RV.1

What students need to be able to do

• Develop and accurately use general academic and content-specific vocabulary.
• Use context and sentence structure to clarify literal and figurative meanings of words and phrases.
• Use structural analysis of roots, affixes, and etymology to clarify meanings of unfamiliar words.
• Discriminate between connotative and denotative meanings of words.
• Identify and explain idiomatic language in context.
• Explain the meaning of literary and classical allusions in context.
• Explain the meaning of figurative language in context and analyze its role in texts.
• Use newly learned words and phrases in multiple contexts.