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