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