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False document
{{short description|Technique employed to create verisimilitude in a work of fiction}}⏎
A '''false document''' is a technique, employed to create [[verisimilitude]] in a work of fiction, where an author tries to create a sense of authenticity beyond the normal and expected suspension of disbelief for a [[work of art]] by inventing and inserting or mentioning documents that appear to be factual.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Baker |first1=Timothy C. |title=Authentic Inauthenticity: The Found Manuscript |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304986715_Authentic(contracted; show full){{Reflist}}
* [[Curtis Peebles]] (1994). ''Watch the Skies: A Chronicle of the Flying Saucer Myth'', [[Smithsonian Institution]], {{ISBN|1-56098-343-4}}

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[[Category:Narratology]]
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