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 Style 2 Symbol 3 Stage directions 4 Simile 5 Situational irony 6 Tone 7 Round character 8 Static character 9 Theme 10 Setting 11 Verbal Irony character with many different traits, sides, or characteristics the way the author feels toward his or her subject an author’s individual writing qualities 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 character who does not change over the course of the story a central idea or message an author focuses on in a piece comparison of two unlike things using the words “like” or “as” when the opposite of what one expects occurs when someone says the opposite of what he or she means the time AND place of a story