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