ABSTRACT
Verisimilitude is sometimes used to propose that a plausible or believable relationship exists between a text and its referent in the world of experience, or, in more sophisticated terms, those discourses that are used to represent it (see discourse). In this usage, events and characters are believable or plausible, possess verisimilitude, if the reader or viewer can accept that such things are possible. Given the range and diversity of texts that might meet this condition, a more precise account of this concept would be needed for it to be analytically useful.
