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