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