Matching Pairs Literary Terms 3Online version Using your prior knowledge, match the definition of the literary term with the term name. by Laura Haney 1 Setting 2 Stage directions 3 Situational irony 4 Simile 5 Symbol 6 Tone 7 Theme 8 Round character 9 Style 10 Static character 11 Verbal Irony a central idea or message an author focuses on in a piece an author’s individual writing qualities when the opposite of what one expects occurs the time AND place of a story comparison of two unlike things using the words “like” or “as” when someone says the opposite of what he or she means an object used to represent an object, person, or idea; adds deeper meaning to storyline part of a play that tells what actors do; not spoken aloud when reading lines the way the author feels toward his or her subject character who does not change over the course of the story character with many different traits, sides, or characteristics