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 Tone 3 Simile 4 Static character 5 Theme 6 Situational irony 7 Setting 8 Style 9 Round character 10 Symbol 11 Stage directions when the opposite of what one expects occurs comparison of two unlike things using the words “like” or “as” the way the author feels toward his or her subject character with many different traits, sides, or characteristics an author’s individual writing qualities when someone says the opposite of what he or she means an object used to represent an object, person, or idea; adds deeper meaning to storyline a central idea or message an author focuses on in a piece 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 the time AND place of a story