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