- "the appearance of truth or reality, as opposed to fantasy, science fiction or the fairy tale. Verisimilitude usually refers to a real person, place or thing described in much believable detail."
- The sense that what one reads is "real," or at least realistic and believable. For instance, the reader possesses a sense of verisimilitude when reading a story in which a character cuts his finger, and the finger bleeds. If the character's cut finger had produced sparks of fire rather than blood, the story would not possess verisimilitude.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
defining the pseudonym
Define: verisimilitude
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