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