What is Verisimilitude & Diegesis?

Brogan Mitchell

Verisimilitude

It is described as the quality of appearing to be true or depicting reality. In storytelling, the audience contributes to the experience by their "willing suspension of disbelief". The more the story resembles reality even in small details the easier it is for the audience to engage. Realism and plausibility are especially important ingredients in an alternate reality game. Something that merely seems to be true or real.

Example: creation of reality such as a story in a book or film/programme.

Diegesis

An artificial world where things exist that is being created before the film or book is made. Diegesis is a style of fiction storytelling which presents an interior view of a world and is:that world itself experienced by the characters in situations and events of the narrativetelling, recounting, as opposed to showing, enacting.

Example: Any kind of story from a book or a film.