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This literary term refers to characters or events in a story that appears to be life like and believable.  If an author writes about a man who falls off a cliff and he dies. It is believable that, if a man falls off a cliff he will die.  It is possible that a person can believe an event or character in a fiction story is real so, a story can have a degree of verisimilitude in fiction stories as well as non-fiction stories, as long as the reader feels that it is real(Wheeler).   
This literary term refers to characters or events in a story that appears to be life like and believable.  If an author writes about a man who falls off a cliff and he dies. It is believable that, if a man falls off a cliff he will die.  It is possible that a person can believe an event or character in a fiction story is real so, a story can have a degree of verisimilitude in fiction stories as well as non-fiction stories, as long as the reader feels that it is real (Wheeler).   




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