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 Theme 2 Static character 3 Symbol 4 Verbal Irony 5 Tone 6 Round character 7 Style 8 Setting 9 Simile 10 Situational irony 11 Stage directions the way the author feels toward his or her subject 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 part of a play that tells what actors do; not spoken aloud when reading lines a central idea or message an author focuses on in a piece 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 character with many different traits, sides, or characteristics the time AND place of a story an author’s individual writing qualities