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False document
{{short description|Technique employed to create verisimilitude in a work of fiction}}
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A '''false document''' is a technique by which an author aims to increase [[verisimilitude]] in a work of fiction by inventing and inserting or mentioning documents that appear to be factual.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Baker |first1=Timothy C. |title=Contemporary Scottish Gothic |chapter=Authentic Inauthenticity: The Found Manuscript |year=2014 |pages=54–88 |chapter-url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304986715 |doi=10.1057/9781137457202_3|isbn=978-1-349-49861-1 }}&l(contracted; show full){{Cite book|last=Peebles|first=Curtis|title=Watch the Skies! : A Chronicle of the Flying Saucer Myth|date=1994|publisher=Smithsonian Institution Press|isbn=1-56098-343-4|location=Washington|oclc=28506353}}
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