Verisimilitude

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.

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Works Cited

• Dr. L. Wheeler, Kip. “Verisimilitude.” Literary Terms and Definitions:V. 1998-2003.

• Harris, Robert. “Verisimilitude.” A Glossary of Literary Terms. 22May1997.

• J.A. Cuddon, Penguin Books, London. “Verisimilitude.” Bibliography: A Dictionary of Literary Terms, 1977

• Mifflin, Houghton. “Verisimilitude.” Webster’s II New College Dictionary. 2001,1999,1995